Which bird is also called the peewit or green plover?
"Plover Plovers ( or ) are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. There are about 66 species in the subfamily, most of them called ""plover"" or ""dotterel"". The closely related lapwing subfamily, Vanellinae, comprises another 20-odd species. Plovers are found throughout the world, with the exception of the Sahara and the polar regions, and are characterised by relatively short bills. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipes do. They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather"
"Magpie-lark The magpie-lark (""Grallina cyanoleuca""), also known as the peewee, peewit or mudlark, is a passerine bird native to Australia, Timor and southern New Guinea. The male and female both have black and white plumage, though with different patterns. John Latham described the species in 1801. Long thought to be a member of the mudnest builder family Corcoracidae, it has been reclassified in the family Monarchidae (the monarch flycatchers). Two subspecies are recognized. The magpie-lark was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in the genus ""Corvus"" in 1801 (as ""Corvus cyanoleucus""). Its species name is derived from the"
"allowed scientists in Hawaii to attach tiny light level geolocator devices to the birds and then retrieve them the following year in the same location. This research revealed that these birds make the 4800 km non-stop flight between Alaska and Hawaii in 3–4 days. Pacific golden plover The Pacific golden plover (""Pluvialis fulva"") is a medium-sized plover. The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from ""pluvia"", ""rain"". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. The species name ""fulva"" is Latin and refers to a tawny colour. The 23–26 cm long breeding adult is"
"long crest and a black crown, throat and breast contrasting with an otherwise white face. Females and young birds have shorter crests, and have less strongly marked heads, but plumages are otherwise quite similar. This is a vocal bird in the breeding season, with constant calling as the crazed tumbling display flight is performed by the male. The typical contact call is a loud, shrill ""pee-wit"" from which they get their other name of peewit. Displaying males usually make a wheezy ""pee-wit, wit wit, eeze wit"" during their display flight, these birds also make squeaking or mewing sounds. It feeds"
"neighbouring territory. A pair of neighbours calling from the 'wrong' place, however, (as when calls are recorded and played back by an experimenter) bring forth a powerful reaction: clearly, they know exactly who their neighbours are. Magpie-lark The magpie-lark (""Grallina cyanoleuca""), also known as the peewee, peewit or mudlark, is a passerine bird native to Australia, Timor and southern New Guinea. The male and female both have black and white plumage, though with different patterns. John Latham described the species in 1801. Long thought to be a member of the mudnest builder family Corcoracidae, it has been reclassified in the"
"Masked lapwing The masked lapwing (""Vanellus miles""), also known as the masked plover and often called the spur-winged plover or just plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent, New Zealand and New Guinea. It spends most of its time on the ground searching for food such as insects and worms and has several distinctive calls. There are two subspecies; the southern ""novaehollandiae"" has distinctive black markings on the shoulder and side of the chest, and is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the"
"Pacific golden plover The Pacific golden plover (""Pluvialis fulva"") is a medium-sized plover. The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from ""pluvia"", ""rain"". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. The species name ""fulva"" is Latin and refers to a tawny colour. The 23–26 cm long breeding adult is spotted gold and black on the crown, and back on the wings. Its face and neck are black with a white border, and it has a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black. In winter, the black is lost and the"
"Greater sand plover The greater sand plover (""Charadrius leschenaultii"") is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as ""greater sandplover"" or ""greater sand-plover"", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is ""Greater Sand Plover"". The genus name ""Charadrius"" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ""kharadrios"" a bird found in ravines and river valleys (""kharadra"", ""ravine""). The specific ""leschenaultii"" commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. It breeds in the semi-deserts of Turkey and eastwards through Central Asia."
"or from its habit of drawing potential predators away from its nest by trailing a wing as if broken. The names ""peewit"", ""pewit"", ""tuit"" or ""tew-it"" are onomatopaeic and refer to the bird's characteristic call. The scientific name ""Vanellus"" is Medieval Latin for the northern lapwing and derives from ""vannus"" a winnowing fan. The northern lapwing is a long bird with a wingspan and a body mass of . It has rounded wings and a crest. It is also the shortest-legged of the lapwings. It is mainly black and white, but the back is tinted green. The male has a"
"Mountain plover 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. The word ""plover"" came from a Latin world ""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"
"Egyptian plover The Egyptian plover (""Pluvianus aegyptius""), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus ""Pluvianus"". Formerly placed in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae, it is now regarded as the sole member of its own monotypic family Pluvianidae. The species is one of several plovers doubtfully associated with the ""trochilus"" bird mentioned in a supposed cleaning symbiosis with the Nile crocodile. The Egyptian plover is a striking and unmistakable species. The 19–21 cm long adult has a black crown, back, eye-mask and breast band. The rest of the head is white. The"
"(AEWA) applies. European golden plover The European golden plover (""Pluvialis apricaria""), also known as the Eurasian golden plover or just the golden plover within Europe, is a largish plover. This species is similar to two other golden plovers: the American golden plover, ""Pluvialis dominica"", and Pacific golden plover, ""Pluvialis fulva"", which are both smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than European golden plover, and both have grey rather than white axillary feathers (only properly visible in flight). The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from ""pluvia"", ""rain"". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent."
"Piping plover The piping plover (""Charadrius melodus"") is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black stripe running along the breast line. This chest band is usually thicker in males during the breeding season, and it is the only reliable way to tell the sexes apart. The bird is difficult to see when it is standing still, as it blends well with open, sandy beach habitats. It typically runs in short spurts"
"the other genera that have not been proposed to be merged into an extended """"Malimbus"""" are monophyletic, the following (incomplete) tree expresses current insights. The genus contains 64 species. <br> Ploceus Ploceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family, Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms. The genus ""Ploceus"" was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the baya weaver. The genus name is from Ancient Greek πλοκευς ""plokeus"" meaning ""weaver"", and is derived from the Greek word πλεκω ""plekō"" ""to entwine"". Based on recent DNA-analysis,"
"Oriental pratincole The oriental pratincole (""Glareola maldivarum""), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin ""glarea"", ""gravel"", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name ""maldivarum"" refers to the type locality, the ocean near the Maldive Islands; the type specimen, caught alive at sea, survived for a month on flies. These birds have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails. They have short bills, which is an adaptation to aerial feeding. The back and head are brown, and the wings"
"house, while at the Durrell Wildlife Park they are in a large walk-through exhibit with birds such as Palawan peacock-pheasants and white-rumped shamas. Hooded pitta The hooded pitta (""Pitta sordida"") is a passerine bird. It is common in eastern and southeastern Asia and maritime Southeast Asia, where it lives in several types of forests as well as on plantations and other cultivated areas. It is a green bird with a black head and chestnut crown. It forages on the ground for insects and their larvae, and also eats berries. It breeds between February and August, the pair being strongly territorial"
"is a musical ""cheewit cheewit"", the contact call is ""tsweet"", and there is also a mewling alarm call. Typically not found in larger groups than two, a breeding pair or more often singly. Another behavioural characteristic is the tendency of birds to stand on top of stones, anthills or large grass clumps. While doing so birds stand upright with their breast extended. This species has a striking resemblance to the unrelated icterid meadowlarks, grassland birds of the Americas. This is presumably due to convergent evolution. Cape longclaw The Cape longclaw or orange-throated longclaw (""Macronyx capensis"") is a passerine bird in"
"include peregrine falcon, merlin, dunlin, wheatear, short-eared owl and golden plover. The moorlands of the West Pennine Moors have largely escaped the extensive planting of conifers suffered in some other parts of the northern uplands. At lower altitudes, the landscape is characterised by pasture and meadows enclosed by dry stone walls. Species-rich grassland is now restricted in both area and distribution, mostly to steeper valleys or cloughs where there are also some species-rich flushes, such as those at Oak Field SSSI. Some of the more improved pastures still retain populations of breeding wading birds such as Peewit or northern lapwing,"
"Grey-tailed tattler The grey-tailed tattler or Polynesian tattler, ""Tringa brevipes"" (formerly ""Heteroscelus brevipes"") is a small, foraging shorebird in the genus ""Tringa"". The English name for the tattlers refers to their noisy call. The genus name ""Tringa"" is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek ""trungas"", a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific ""brevipes"" is from Latin ""brevis"", ""short"", and ""pes"", ""foot"". This tattler breeds in northeast Siberia. After breeding, they migrate to an area from southeast Asia to Australia. The grey-tailed tattler is closely related"
"by sight. They eat insects and worms. Three subspecies recognized. The little ringed plover is one of the species to which the ""Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds"" (AEWA) applies. Little ringed plover The little ringed plover (""Charadrius dubius"") is a small plover. The genus name ""Charadrius"" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ""kharadrios"" a bird found in river valleys (""kharadra"", ""ravine""). The specific ""dubius"" is Latin for doubtful, since Sonnerat, writing in 1776, thought this bird might be just a variant of common ringed"
"was named after the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson by his friend George Ord in 1814. Wilson's plover The Wilson's plover (""Charadrius wilsonia"") is a small plover. Wilson's plover is a coastal wader which breeds on both coasts of the Americas from the equator northwards. Its range extends north to include much of the U.S. eastern seaboard, and the Pacific coast of Mexico on the west. It is a partial migrant. Birds leave the United States, except Florida, to winter south in Brazil. Some Mexican birds leave in winter for Peru. Furthermore, a small resident population is known from Brazil, it"
"Semipalmated plover The semipalmated plover (""Charadrius semipalmatus"") is a small plover. The genus name ""Charadrius"" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ""kharadrios"" a bird found in ravines and river valleys (""kharadra"", ""ravine""). The specific "" semipalmatus "" is Latin and comes from ""semi"", ""half"" and ""palma"", ""palm"". Like the English name, this refers to its only partly webbed feet. This species weighs and measures in length and across the wings. Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black"
"which is often repeated. The female has a loud ""aow-aa"" call with an emphasis on the first syllable. The male may also make a similar call. The males call from their roost sites at dawn and dusk. Green peafowl are large birds, amongst the largest living galliforms in terms of overall size, though rather lighter-bodied than the wild turkey, and perhaps the longest extant, wild bird in total length. The male is in total length, but this includes its tail covert (or ""train"") which itself measures . The tail coverts are even longer than those of the male Indian peafowl,"
"river valleys (""kharadra"", ""ravine""). The specific "" morinellus"" is Ancient Greek derived from ""moros"" ""foolish"", due to the bird's trusting nature. This plover is smaller and more compact than European golden plover (""Pluvialis apricaria""). It has a striking whitish supercilium in all plumages and has plain wings in flight. Adults in summer are unmistakable, with a chestnut breast bordered above with white, black belly and warm brown back. The legs are yellow, and the short bill is black. As with the phalaropes, the female is brighter than the male. Winter birds lack the rich underpart colouration, apart from the white"
"golden plover and short-eared owl) are listed in Annex 1 of the European Commission's Birds Directive as requiring special protection and others (including lapwing and dunlin) are listed in the United Kingdom's Red Data Book (Birds). The invertebrate fauna is best known from studies conducted over many years at the Moor House NNR. The area shares many characteristics with the Cairngorms region of Scotland but there are some notable rarities, including a rove beetle, ""Olophrum assimile"", which is known from only one other locality in Britain, a carabid beetle, ""Nebria nivalis"", which has not been found anywhere else in the"
"dusk. Transcribed as ""kro kro"" or ""koro koro"", the call is described as ""mellow"". Because of its huge range and large population, the green ibis is rated as a species of least concern by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature; however, its numbers do appear to be decreasing. It is at least occasionally hunted (and eaten) by residents of Central and South American countries. The green ibis is the type host of a species of bird louse, ""Plegadiphalus cayennensis"". Green ibis The green ibis (""Mesembrinibis cayennensis""), also known as the Cayenne ibis, is a wading bird in the"
"correlated with higher densities of red grouse, golden plover, curlew, lapwing, redshank and ring ouzel. Research has also shown that on moors managed for grouse shooting, ground nesting birds such as curlew and lapwing, both of which are species of the highest conservation concern in the UK, are 3.5 times more likely to raise a chick to fledgling stage. Studies on a former grouse moor in Berwyn found that within 20 years of grouse moor management ending, lapwing became extinct at the site, golden plover declined by 90 per cent, and curlew declined by 79 per cent. However, research also"
"stilts and ""Pluvialis"" plovers, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family, Ibidorhynchidae. There are no subspecies. The species was described in 1831 by Vigors based on painting by John Gould although Brian Hodgson had sent a manuscript to the Asiatic Society of Bengal two years earlier describing it as the ""Red-billed Erolia"" but this was published only in 1835 with an apology from the editor. Hodgson later suggested a new genus name of ""Clorhynchus"" for the bird stating that Gould's description of ""Ibidorhyncha"" was inaccurate while Vieillot's ""Erolia"" had been rejected. The species is named in honour of Dr."
"which the ""Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds"" (AEWA) applies. Common ringed plover The common ringed plover or ringed plover (""Charadrius hiaticula"") is a small plover that breeds in Arctic Eurasia. The genus name ""Charadrius"" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ""kharadrios"" a bird found in ravines and river valleys (""kharadra"", ""ravine""). The specific ""hiaticula"" is Latin and has a similar meaning to the Greek term, coming from ""hiatus"", ""cleft"" and ""-cola"", ""dweller"" (""colere"", ""to dwell""). Adults are in length with a wingspan. They have"
"Green catbird The green catbird (""Ailuroedus crassirostris"") is a species of bowerbird found in subtropical forests along the east coast of Australia, from southeastern Queensland to southern New South Wales. It is named for its distinctive call which sounds like a cat meowing, although it has also been mistaken for a crying child. The green catbird resembles the spotted catbird, which is only found in an isolated population in Far North Queensland. Green catbirds are a medium-sized stocky bird with long, powerful legs and a long, stout bill. The back, wings and rump are brilliant emerald green, with very conspicuous"
"red-billed quelea, reputed to be the world's most numerous bird. Ploceidae Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers or weaverbirds. This name comes from the nests of intricately woven vegetation that many birds of the family make. In most recent classifications, Ploceidae is a clade, which excludes some birds that have historically been placed in the family, such as some of the sparrows, but which includes the monotypic subfamily Amblyospizinae. The family is believed to have originated in the mid-Miocene. All birds of the Ploceidae are native to the Old World, most in"
"Ploceus Ploceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family, Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms. The genus ""Ploceus"" was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the baya weaver. The genus name is from Ancient Greek πλοκευς ""plokeus"" meaning ""weaver"", and is derived from the Greek word πλεκω ""plekō"" ""to entwine"". Based on recent DNA-analysis, the genus ""Ploceus"" is almost certainly polyphyletic. If all species currently included in the genus would remain and the genus would be made monophyletic, it would have to encompass the"
"Ploceidae Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers or weaverbirds. This name comes from the nests of intricately woven vegetation that many birds of the family make. In most recent classifications, Ploceidae is a clade, which excludes some birds that have historically been placed in the family, such as some of the sparrows, but which includes the monotypic subfamily Amblyospizinae. The family is believed to have originated in the mid-Miocene. All birds of the Ploceidae are native to the Old World, most in Africa south of the Sahara, though a few live in"