The Mountain Plover is one of our misnamed birds. Typically not found in
mountains, it breeds in the high grassland plains east of the Rocky
Mountains from Montana to New Mexico and in western Texas and western
Oklahoma south to central Mexico. Often called the “bare ground plover”,
during breeding season it relies on habitat with >30% bare ground, often
utilizing highly disturbed sites. In Arizona, we are most likely to see
wintering birds from August to March. Read more about this threatened bird
at Arizona Bird's 'species of the month
<https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/R3nxCrgWPrT607A4ZT7fNS4mO4q?<domain...>'
feature for April. Arizona Birds is the online journal of the Arizona Field
Ornithologists.
