The Snowy Plover is a pale, sand-colored shorebird that blends into beaches and salt flats. It searches for small invertebrates as it moves across the shore.
Its plumage is pale brown, with a partial black or brown collar and a short black bill.
It forages for small invertebrates on ocean beaches, salt flats, and alkaline lakes, moving in quick bursts and stopping to search.
It nests in a slight depression in dry ground, sometimes lined with pebbles, shell fragments, or fish bones. On beaches it often chooses a site near seaweed or a shell.
Chicks hatch covered in down, leave the nest once dry, and feed themselves. Often the male rears the chicks while the female starts another nest with a new mate.
On shores it eats amphipods, snails, clams, and polychaete worms. It also takes flies, beetles, and fly larvae.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.