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little ringed plover in British English (ˈlɪtəl rɪŋd ˈplʌvə) nouna small grey and brown coloured plover which breeds in Europe and Asia and migrates to Africa for winter Examples of 'little ringed plover' in a sentencelittle ringed plover One of the first spring visitors is the little ringed plover.Among those found in his possession were some belonging to rare birds, including the little ringed plover and hawfinch.Another spring migrant now arriving on the pebbly shores of flooded gravel pits is the little ringed plover.A tiny wader that is returning to sandbanks in flooded gravel pits is the little ringed plover.A small wader, the little ringed plover, is showing up on the shores of flooded gravel pits and reservoirs.Also, the ringed plover has a ringing 'too-ee' call, while the little ringed plover reverses the vowels and calls softly 'tee-oo'.There is also a smaller summer visitor called the little ringed plover, which nests on islands in flooded gravel pits.This coincided with a surge of interest in birdwatching, and the little ringed plover became a kind of mascot of the new ornithologists.The little ringed plover has survived villainous colonels and other threats, and nowadays about a thousand pairs nest here each year.The two species can be distinguished first by the fact that the ringed plover has a white wingbar, while the little ringed plover hasn't. |