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Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus AEliggialitis having a ring around the neck The ring is black in summer but becomes brown or gray in winter The semipalmated plover AEliggialitis semipalmata and the piping plover AEliggialitis meloda are common North American species Called also ring plover and ring necked plover