Plovers, first and foremost, include plovers, gulls and puffins. And we often say that the plover is 12 families and 90 genera and 196 species of partridge or sandpiper in the family of plovers, which have been mentioned before, and now let's talk about these kinds of plovers, in order of the Plover family, pheasant family, crab plover family, stone plover family and swallow family.
Plover is a small and medium-sized wader, the so-called wader, refers to the adaptation to the swamp and waterside life, adapt to shallow water and shore habitat life of birds, the most common main feature is the "three long", that is, the mouth is long, the neck is long, the foot is long, suitable for wading, not good at swimming, rest often one foot standing, mostly to the bottom of the water, sludge or the ground of small organisms for food, plover is its important classification.
The most famous representative of the Plover family is the wheat chicken, whose English name is Vanellinae, which means a bird with a very slow flapping wing. The size is like a chicken, distributed in six continents, important members are Eurasian wheat chicken, shaky wheat chicken, red weeping wheat chicken, yellow weeping wheat chicken, gray head wheat chicken and long-toed wheat chicken, mostly "thin chickens" with long legs, the head is rounder than the chicken head, and the head is fatter than the crane head, and the body proportion is still OK.
Pheasant family is also known as the pheasant family, the name of the pheasant has achieved so wonderful, of course, because they do have the beauty of not losing to the pheasant, they are the pheasants walking in the water, but the mouth has become longer, the neck has become more slender, the legs and feet are also stretched out like two chopsticks, they live in the tropical and subtropical freshwater lakes, they can walk on the water lily leaves, lotus leaves, diamond horn leaves, and coriander leaves, light as swallows, light and elegant movements, coupled with this beauty, people send beauty: "Lingbo fairy"!
The white-headed snow belly, the black-tailed inky back, the slender tail feathers, several long and uneven tails and golden patches on the back of the neck are their most distinctive and eye-catching embellishments. Finally, a blue-gray beak was inserted, which really made people wonder if they were fairy birds that fell from the heavenly court!
The crab plover is the only species of crab plover, which is mainly distributed along the western coast of Asia and the eastern coast of Africa, and is a common coastal bird in the Indian Ocean. They comb a large white back, the eyes are black, the male and female are the same pair of snow white long legs leaning, the male is mainly white, the black body color is very dazzling, the female bird is mainly gray-brown, and the white-supplemented body color is monotonous.
They are gentle in temperament, and unless provoked, they do not bother to pay attention to people at all. The song is noisier, the nest is in the sand cave, is the only species of sandpiper nesting in the cave, like to peck at delicious crab meat, will use the awl-like black beak to mash the crab shell, take its essence into the stomach, but also eat some mollusks in the shallow sea, worms are also not rejected for them.
There are 9 species in the family Lycaenidae. Can also be translated as thick-kneeed plover stone plover, the distribution range is very wide, but the number is rare, today is relatively rare, the appearance is very similar to the spoon sandpiper, so also known as the stone spoon sandpiper. The plover is a large head, large eyes, swollen mouth, swollen legs, yellow eyes and yellow beak, yellow feet, which are obviously different from other birds. The plover is known for its large head and is most common in South Africa.
The water stone plover is native to tropical Africa and is also known as the water plover.
The European stone plover is a common bird in southwestern Europe and southwest Asia, known to the British as the Norfolk Plover.
The double-striped plover is named after the two black stripes on its head and is commonly found in tropical America.
It is found in the coastal rivers of India and can also be called reef-knee plover or plover.
The beach plover is an Australian seabird, also known as the large-billed stone plover.
In northern Australia, it can also be seen in the bush trout, the body color is mainly red, and the nest is parasitic.
The species of the swallow family is like a group of large swallows with slender legs and feet, they are also good at nesting and flying, and their flying posture is similar to that of swallows, so it is also known as earth swallows. The reason why they are called earth swallows is because their feathers are dark, mostly as deep as the earth stucco brown, and the body is fatter, if the swallow is a small Lolita wearing a tuxedo, then the swallow is a royal sister wearing black stocking boots. The most adorable species is the Indian swallow plover, also known as the gray swallow plover, which seems to be a bird detached from the ink painting of the mountain and half water, and is outlined in black, gray and white. The padding is rendered and the shape is very pleasing. Other species such as the Black Red Plover (also known as the Locust Bird) in the Middle East, the African White-collar Plover, and the Australian Long-legged Plover are good birds that prey on harmful insects such as locusts.
Plovers are a group of birds that are both extraordinary and very low-key, and it is no wonder that I usually see them so rarely.
Qing Shu, December 24, 2014.