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Magellanic plover, the Glossary

The Magellanic plover (Pluvianellus socialis) is a rare wader endemic to southernmost South America.^[1]

15 relations: Antarctic, Argentina, Bird migration, Charadriidae, Columbidae, Egg, Egg incubation, Endemism, George Robert Gray, Invertebrate, Puffin, Sheathbill, South America, Turnstone, Wader.
Birds of Tierra del Fuego
Chionidi

Antarctic

The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Charadriidae

The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings.

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Columbidae

Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.

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An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Egg incubation

Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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George Robert Gray

George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Puffin

Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula.

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Sheathbill

The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Turnstone

Turnstones are two bird species that constitute the genus Arenaria in the family Scolopacidae.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans. Magellanic plover and Wader are Chionidi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_plover

Also known as Pluvianellidae, Pluvianellus, Pluvianellus socialis.