Mountain Plover Images, Facts and Information:
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.
Mountain Plover standing on a sandy road
Title: Mountain Plover standing on a sandy road
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Female Mountain Plover in Davis County
Title: Female Mountain Plover in Davis County
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Female Mountain Plover in the spring
Title: Female Mountain Plover in the spring
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Male Mountain Plover in breeding plumage
Title: Male Mountain Plover in breeding plumage
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Handsome shorebird, the Mountain Plover
Title: Handsome shorebird, the Mountain Plover
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover female resting on the ground
Title: Mountain Plover female resting on the ground
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Male Mountain Plover in a sandy location
Title: Male Mountain Plover in a sandy location
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Male Mountain Plover with a caterpillar
Title: Male Mountain Plover with a caterpillar
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover male in the grass
Title: Mountain Plover male in the grass
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Over the shoulder look from a female Mountain Plover
Title: Over the shoulder look from a female Mountain Plover
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Female Mountain Plover with an eye on me
Title: Female Mountain Plover with an eye on me
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover delight
Title: Mountain Plover delight
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover in spring grasses
Title: Mountain Plover in spring grasses
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Male Mountain Plover, April 10, 2013
Title: Male Mountain Plover, April 10, 2013
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Female Mountain Plover in a field
Title: Female Mountain Plover in a field
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover in habitat on Antelope Island, UT
Title: Mountain Plover in habitat on Antelope Island, UT
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover with prey
Title: Mountain Plover with prey
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Mountain Plover, female going into breeding plumage
Title: Mountain Plover, female going into breeding plumage
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Alert Mountain Plover
Title: Alert Mountain Plover
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013
Resting female Mountain Plover
Title: Resting female Mountain Plover
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2013