whateatsmountainplovers

Mountain plovers are carnivores (insectivores). They feed mainly on various insects and will also take scorpions, centipedes, and occasionally seeds. Diet ...

Mountain Plovers eat mostly insects, including grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, and ants. They occasionally eat scorpions and centipedes, and rarely eat seeds.

Diet is not well known; but in the dry upland habitats where this plover lives, it probably feeds almost entirely on insects, including grasshoppers, beetles, ...

2003年12月1日 — Mountain plovers are disappearing throughout their western range. ... Prairie dogs produce lots of feces, which attracts the insects plovers like ...

On their wintering grounds, plovers have been regularly observed capturing and eating grasshoppers, crickets and beetles (Storer 1941), but wintering birds ...