Mountain Plover Images

Mountain Plover Images, Facts and Information:

Anarhynchus montanus used to be Charadrius montanus

• Mountain Plovers are medium sized shorebirds with long legs, relatively short necks and bills, brownish gray plumage, white faces and undersides.
• Despite their name Mountain Plovers are rarely found near water or in mountains. Their habitat preferences includes open, dry areas of short-grass prairies and agricultural fields.
• They are migratory.
• Mountain Plovers will follow livestock around in pastures because of the insects the animals stir up.
• The diet of Mountain Plovers includes flies, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, insect larvae and other insects.
• Mountain Plovers lay 2 to 4 eggs which take 28 to 31 days to hatch. Both sexes incubate.
• A group of plovers is called a “ponderance”, “deceit”, “congregation”, “brace” or a “wing” of plovers.
• Mountain Plovers live up to 10 years.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Mountain Plover photos.