What is Egyptian plover?
{{Taxobox | name = Egyptian plover | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{IUCN2006|assessors=[[BirdLife International]]|year=2004|id=49186|title=Pluvianus aegyptius|downloaded=11 May 2006}}</ref> | image = Flickr - Rainbirder - Egyptian Plover (Pluvianus aegyptius).jpg | image_caption = Kaur Wetlands, the Gambia | image_width = 240px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Charadriiformes]] | familia = '''Pluvianidae''' | genus = '''''Pluvianus''''' | genus_authority = [[Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1816 | species = '''''P. aegyptius''''' | binomial = ''Pluvianus aegyptius'' | binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758) }} The ''' Egyptian plover''' is a [[wader]]. It is the only member of the [[genus]] ''Pluvianus''. It is sometimes called the '''crocodile bird'''. This is because of a story dating to [[Herodotus]]. In the story the crocodiles lie on the shore with their mouths open. The plovers fly into the crocodiles' mouths to feed on bits of meat between the crocodiles' teeth. There is no evidence of this actually happening.<ref>{{cite web |author=Adam Britton |url=http://crocodilian.blogspot.com/2009/09/crocodile-myths-1-curious-trochilus.html |title=Croc Blog: Crocodile myths #1 - the curious trochilus |publisher=Crocodilian.blogspot.com |date=2009-09-06 |accessdate=2011-10-20 |archive-date=2013-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311082746/http://crocodilian.blogspot.com/2009/09/crocodile-myths-1-curious-trochilus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Egyptian plover lives in tropical [[Sahara Desert|sub-Saharan]] [[Africa]]. It breeds on sandbars in large rivers. Its two or three [[egg (biology)|eggs]] are buried in warm sand. It feeds by pecking for [[insect]]s. The call is a high-pitched ''krrr-krrr-krrr''. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/crocodile+bird Egyptian plover at encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com] {{commons cat