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BOTD: Mountain Plover
Photo: Ron Knight
"Poorly named, this pallid plover is a bird of flat open plains, not mountains. Of all of our 'shorebirds,' this is the one most disconnected from the shore, generally living miles from water in the dry country of the west. The short-grass prairie where it once thrived has been largely converted to farmland, but the Mountain Plover has found new habitat in grassland overgrazed by cattle."
- Audubon Field Guide
Daily Bird: Mountain Plover
Range: high plains, continental US
More information: here
Photo: https : // upload . wikimedia . org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Mountain_Plover%2C_Charadrius_montanus.jpg
February 8, 2017 - Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus)
Requested by: @gepwin
These plovers are found in the short-grass prairies of the western United States, wintering as far south as northern Mexico. Their diet is not well known, but is probably mostly insects, such as beetles, flies, and grasshoppers. They have a variety of breeding systems, being either monogamous, polyandrous, or polygynous. Males display by flying slowly over their territory calling to females. Females build their nests in depressions in the ground, sometimes leaving a first clutch of eggs to be incubated and cared for by a male, before building another nest, where they or a different male care for a second brood. They are listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to declining populations and a loss of breeding habitat.
Mountain Plover
Santa Cruz Flats, AZ, 1-16-17
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Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus) © C. J. Maynard
It hatches from bare, barren, black, central, dark, flat, little, local, mountainous, open, plain, rare, slender, southwestern, white, and whitish eggs.
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Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus) © John James Audubon
It hatches from bare, barren, black, central, dark, flat, little, local, mountainous, open, plain, rare, slender, southwestern, white, and whitish eggs.
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Mountain Plover Pawnee Grassland, CO 15 July 2018