Definition of shore bird Shore bird
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What does shore bird mean?
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| shore bird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | ||
| shorebird, limicoline bird | ||
| wader, wading bird any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | ||
| charadrii, suborder charadrii shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews | ||
| 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 a gunshot from a concealed location | ||
| 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 plover, stiltbird, stilt long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | ||
| australian stilt, stilt long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | ||
| 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 | ||
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