What do you call a plover that's about 4 feet tall?

That's what the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership wants to know.

The Lincoln-based group has a 4-foot-tall piping plover and is sponsoring a "Name the Giant Piping Plover Contest."

"We need your help giving the big bird a name -- we just can't go out in public with an anonymous plover," Christine Thody, the group's outreach coordinator, said in a news release.

The partnership is made up of various groups that work to conserve and protect endangered interior least terns and threatened piping plovers. It plans to use the bird to raise public awareness about the birds.

Entries are due by 5 p.m. Oct. 28. E-mail them to: ternsandplovers@unl.edu.

Make sure to include your name, e-mail address and phone number.

The winner will be announced on Oct. 29.

"There will be prizes, so stuff the ballot box," Thody said.

Forget Big Bird. It's already taken.