How to Use snowy plover in a Sentence

snowy plover

noun
  • For two weeks, the brown-and-white snowy plover was fed tiny worms and appeared to be perking up.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 May 2020
  • Gardner then spots the bobbing heads of a snowy plover and its chick among the grasses.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There the dunes and plants would protect the nests of the snowy plover and other bird species from people and dogs.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The sea turtles are nesting and so are shorebirds such as snowy plovers, Wilson’s plovers and least terns.
    — Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The oil spill that fouled the coast threatened the snowy plover at a time when experts were hopeful that the species was making a comeback.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Kravtsov, who also spent all summer here, had told me where to find a snowy plover habitat, a 20-minute walk along the beach.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Life was never easy for the Pacific Coast’s western snowy plover.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • This week, caretakers released the bird once more and stood on the beach as the western snowy plover took flight over waves that crashed against the sandy coastline.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Advertisement The snowy plovers nest in mini-enclosures in the area.
    — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The larger incubator turns the eggs every two hours, just like a snowy plover mother would in a nest, Egger said.
    — Priscella Vega, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The day before, a drone went down in Bolsa Chica near nesting sites of the California least tern and the snowy plover.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
  • The area is home to a number of endangered animals, such as the western snowy plover, which have been harmed by the beach’s deteriorating conditions.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The western snowy plover is a small shorebird that is protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, Daily Pilot, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Environmental groups raised concerns that unleashed canines could cause harm to rare and at-risk western snowy plovers and California least terns that roost nearby.
    — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 6 Sep. 2019
  • More than an hour of constant scoping of distant beach and mudflats yielded no snowy plover, though black-bellied, semipalmated, piping and Wilson’s plovers were all present.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The beach also provides a nesting sanctuary for endangered and threatened bird species, including the California least tern and snowy plover.
    — Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Restoring the tidal marsh was a bigger operation than work done for the snowy plover habitat, requiring hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of dirt to fill old ditches and build a gradual slope where the water meets the land.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Colorful eels, octopuses, swell sharks, snowy plovers, lobsters, horn sharks, poppy flowers, pelicans, Western gulls, and cormorants are many of the creatures popping from the wall’s canvas.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Of those species, 23 have special status, including the California least tern and Ridgway’s rail, which are endangered, and the Western snowy plover, which is classified as threatened.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
  • According to the San Diego Bird Alliance, the western snowy plover lays its eggs in loose sand with little cover along the Pacific coastline, leaving its nest largely unprotected from high tides and weather.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026

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