Egyptian plover the job may be hasty. The chicks are precocial, and can run as soon as they are hatched and feed themselves shortly afterwards. The adults cool the chicks in the same way as with the eggs. The chicks may drink water from the adult's belly feathers. The adults bury the chicks in the sand temporarily if danger threatens. The bird is sometimes referred to as the crocodile bird for its alleged symbiotic relationship with crocodiles. According to Herodotus, the crocodiles lie on the shore with their mouths open and a bird called "trochilus" flies into the crocodiles' mouths so as
Common ringed plover which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies. Common ringed plover The common ringed plover or ringed plover ("Charadrius hiaticula") is a small plover that breeds in Arctic Eurasia. The genus name "Charadrius" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek "kharadrios" a bird found in ravines and river valleys ("kharadra", "ravine"). The specific "hiaticula" is Latin and has a similar meaning to the Greek term, coming from "hiatus", "cleft" and "-cola", "dweller" ("colere", "to dwell"). Adults are in length with a wingspan. They have