Mountain plover | 台北市立動物園資訊網
Themountainplover(Charadriusmontanus)isamedium-sizedgroundbirdintheploverfamily(Charadriidae).Itismisnamed,asitlivesonlevelland.
Species of bird
The mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) is a medium-sized ground bird in the plover family (Charadriidae). It is misnamed, as it lives on level land. Unlike most plovers, it is usually not found near bodies of water or even on wet soil; it prefers dry habitat with short grass (usually due to grazing) and bare ground.
Description[edit]The word plover came from a Latin word pluvia which means "rain". In Medieval England some migratory birds became known as plovers because they returned to their breeding grounds each spring with rain. In 1832 American naturalist John Kirk Townsend spotted a species of unknown bird near the Rocky Mountains, and assumed that all these birds live in mountains. The plover comes back each spring to its breeding grounds, and so the wrong name mountain plover was given to the species. The mountain plover is 8 to 9.5 inches (20 to 24&nb...
Mountain plover | 台北市立動物園資訊網
Mountain Plover | 台北市立動物園資訊網
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Mountain Plover | 台北市立動物園資訊網
Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus | 台北市立動物園資訊網
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