Altho this PLOVER is rarely seen in the United States, I have stretched a point and included it because of its occurrence in Greenland. They arrive there in pairs toward the last of May and courting seems to be done mostly in the air. They circle high, then drop in great curves, skim low just above the ground and the long-winged graceful birds change to little gray forms when they alight, so perfectly do they merge into the sand.
Greenland and eastern Arctic America.