Plover Collection

A Selection of Game
Various game birds: wood pigeon, wild duck, woodcock, black plover, snipe, pheasants, hare, teal

Great bustard, Otis tarda (vulnerable), and common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Charadrius melodus, piping plover
Plate 220 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Kentish Plover by George Rankin

American golden plover and ruddy turnstone
American golden plover, Pluvialis dominica 1, 2, and ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres turnstone 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry

Greater yellow-legs, semipalmated sandpiper and spotted
Greater yellow-legs, Tringa melanoleuca 1, semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla 2, and spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius 3

Egyptian plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, and Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire

Crab plover, Dromas ardeola, and black swan, Cygnus atratus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

New Zealand plover, Charadrius obscures. Endangered
New Zealand plover, Charadrius obscures (Charadrius novae Zealandiae). Endangered. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Crab plover, Dromas ardeola (Abyssinian erody, Ardea pondiceriana). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

African wattled lapwing, Vanellus senegallus
African wattled lapwing or Senegal wattled plover, Vanellus senegallus (Striped-throated lapwing, Vanellus strigilatus). handcoloured, steel engraving, William Lizars, William Swainson, illustration

Little ringed plover, Charadrius dubius curonicus (Black-zoned plover, Charadrias zonatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

European golden plover, Pluvialis apricaria, and ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Ringed Plover. Date: 1957

Variety of birds eggs
1- swallow, 2- cuckoo, 3- rook, 4- crow, 5- jackdaw, 6- jay, 7- sparrowhawk, 8- kestrel, 9- ringed plover, 10- snipe, 11- black tern, 12- common tern. Date: 1894

Shore Plover Tuturuatu, Wrybill Ngutu Pare
Shore Plover Tuturuatu, Thinornis novaeseelandiae. Wrybill Ngutu Pare, Anarchynchus frontalis. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Crested partridge, Rollulus rouloul, and Madagascar plover, Charadrius thoracicus (vulnerable).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

RINGED PLOVER - typical nest in a pebble beach (Charadrius hiaticula ). Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Pacific Golden PLOVER - nest with eggs (Pluvialis fulva). Tundra, Taimyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic

Pluvialis squatrola, grey plover
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Calidris maritima, purple sandpiper, Charadrius wilsonius, W
Plate 284 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius vociferus, killdeer
Plate 225 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius wilsonia, Wilsons plover
Plate 209 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius semipalmatus, semipalmated plover
Plate 330 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pluvialis squatarola, grey plover
Plate 334 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius montanus, mountain plover
Plate 350 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pluvialis dominica, American golden plover
Plate 300 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Plover and Heron
A Double Striped Thick Knee Plover and a Boat-billed Heron, at Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Kentish Plover / Male
Side view of a male Kentish Plover

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