shorebird

Noun
  1. Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries (synset 102025338)
    is a type of: wader, wading bird - any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
    subtypes:
    • plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
    • sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
    • aphriza virgata, surfbird - sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America
    • woodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
    • snipe - Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
    • curlew - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
    • godwit - large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill
    • himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird - long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
    • australian stilt, stilt - long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
    • avocet - long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
    • oyster catcher, oystercatcher - black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.
    • phalarope - small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics
    • glareole, pratincole - Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers
    • courser - swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
    • burhinus oedicnemus, stone curlew, thick-knee - large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint
    belongs to: charadrii, suborder charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews
    same as: limicoline bird, shore bird

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