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Crab Plover Dromas ardeola
      The Indian Ocean's Crab-loving PLOVER an article from Arabian Wildlife Magazine

Black Stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre - WCMC/WWF Species Under Threat

American Avocet Recurvirostra americana - Wildlife Fact Sheet Texas Parks and Wildlife, photos of basic & alternate plumage

Bush Thick-knee Burhinus magnirostris (or Bush Stone-Curlew B. grallarius) and
Beach Thick-knee Esacus magnirostris (or Beach Stone-Curlew E. neglectus)
     Threatened Fauna in Australia: A select bibliography by Kevin P. Slattery and Robert L. Wallis

Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
     Various links

Report Banded Golden and Black-bellied (Gray) Plovers Researchers Dr. Wally Johnson, Phillip Bruner and Robert Gill have banded Pacific and American Golden-Plovers (Pluvialis fulva and P. dominica) and Black-bellied Plovers (P. squatarola) in the Pacific and in Alaska. Please report any observations of these banded plovers to them.   (Please note color and placement of the bands!)

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Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus

• Endangered Species: The Snowy Plover from Shorebirds Sister Schools Program
• Western Snowy Plover Index of the US Fish & Wildlife Service
• Snowy Plover master list: | Life History Data | Identification Tips | Breeding Distribution Map (BBS Data) | Winter Distribution Map (CBC Data) |

Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
     Piping Plover - Links because there is so much on Piping Plover we have a whole page of links!

Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Range Maps, Life History, photo and song from NBS

Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus

• Mountain Plover - A Threatened and Endangered species, a detailed fact sheet from Nebraska Wildlife
• Watch List: Mountain Plover (threat criteria and range map)
• Mountain Plover: excerpts from The Birds of North America, No. 211, Fritz L. Knopf

Hooded Plover Charadrius rubricollis
     Action Statement No. 9 - Hooded Plover. Hooded Plovers are rare endemic shorebirds that breed mainly on the ocean beaches of southern Australia. Their breeding habitat is under threat from disturbance by people, their pets and their recreational vehicles. They are currently being colour-banded in Victoria, NSW, in order to learn more about their movements and their ecology in a project of the AWSG.

Shore Plover Thinornis novaeseelandiae
     World Conservation Monitoring Centre - WCMC/WWF Species Under Threat

Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis

• Search for Eskimo Curlew: Canadian Endangered Species Coalition A fact sheet to help in the search for this vanishing species, including notes on Whimbrel and Long-billed Curlew.
• Birds of the Upper Texas Coast - Eskimo Curlew general comments and a summary of Texas records of Eskimo Curlew.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre - WCMC/WWF Species Under Threat

Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
     Outline of Far Eastern Curlew Satellite tracking Project
     Tracking of migration from Queensland, Australia to Japan beginning in Feb. 1997

Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
      Bird of the Month (Wilson's Phalarope) for October 1996 from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria
     Get Peterson Online's Field Guide of the Week: Peterson ID Challenge: Red Phalarope

Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri

• The Shorebird Sister Schools Program Ambassador Species, Western Sandpiper fact sheet.
• Peterson Bird of the Week: Western Sandpiper

Dunlin Calidris alpina

• Dunlin: Species Fact Sheet from Arctic Bird Library with photos, sound file and circumpolar range map
• Dunlin species coverage from the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
      Bird of the Month (Buff-breasted Sandpiper) for June 1997 from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Ruff Philomachus pugnax
     Ruff Project by David B. Lank who states: "Since 1984, I have studied the ruff, Philomachus pugnax, a sandpiper species which presents particular challenges for behavioral, population and evolutionary biologists because it has a stable genetic polymorphism in male mating behavior." This is an excellent study with a great web site.

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