Sometimes, though, the price for lying is death. In 2008, on a beach in Spain, Gómez-Serrano saw a Kentish plover enacting an in-motion broken-wing display for a small predator hidden in the ...

Ornamented in buff and pale feathers, the western snowy plover often goes unnoticed amongst the sand dunes it inhabits. Heedless of this shy, pocket-sized shorebird, developers have made the open ...

They found that these birds tended to have smaller wings, tails and beaks than the Kentish plover, as well as different plumage. While the Kentish plover tends to have black legs in both sexes ...

Ornamented in buff and pale feathers, the western snowy plover often goes unnoticed amongst the sand dunes it inhabits. Heedless of this shy, pocket-sized shorebird, developers have made the open ...