Prairie dog burrows provide the nesting areas for mountain plovers and burrowing owls. Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. The family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels and lapwings. The family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. There are multiple significant predictors of plumage ornamentation in Kentish plovers. They are a subfamily of medium-sized wading birds which also includes the plovers and dotterels. It is similar to two other golden plovers&colon; the Eurasian and American plovers. It is similar to two other golden plovers, European and Pacific.