Egyptian plover to feed on decaying meat lodged between the crocodiles' teeth. The identification of the trochilus with any particular plover is doubtful, as is the cleaning symbiosis itself; no known photographic evidence exists, and the written accounts are considered suspect by the biologist Thomas Howell. Egyptian plover The Egyptian plover ("Pluvianus aegyptius"), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus "Pluvianus". Formerly placed in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae, it is now regarded as the sole member of its own monotypic family Pluvianidae. The species is one of several plovers doubtfully associated with
Plover, Wisconsin the name of the village was finally changed to Plover. In 1868, the county seat was moved to Stevens Point, following an energetic battle in newspapers and the state legislature. The village of Plover was dissolved. Government of the area fell to the Town of Plover. Plover was again incorporated as a village on March 8, 1912 after area residents' approval in an election. This incorporation was not long lived, as Plover was again dissolved on October 7, 1931 after another election. An attempt at re-incorporation failed in 1965. Plover re-incorporated, for the third time, on September 28, 1971. The