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Dieren en planten

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Plovers

food:

mainly insects, worms or other invertebrates

characteristics:

relatively short bills
hunt food using sight and the run-and-pause technique

  • Dut: Plevieren
  • Lat: Charadriidae
  • Eng: Plovers
  • Ger: Regenpfeiferartige
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Plovers

You often see plovers running frantically back and forth. Most plovers eat insects, worms and small crustaceans. In order to catch these prey, they run short sprints, stopping suddenly to look around or to eat and then continue running. Plovers are seen on grasslands and marshes and along the coast.