shore bird

/ʃɔər bərd/

Other forms: shore birds

Definitions of shore bird

1. noun

   any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
   synonyms: limicoline bird, shorebird

   types:

   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

   Charadrius melodus, piping plover

   small plover of eastern North America

   Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover

   American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry

   Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus, dotrel, dotterel

   rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia

   golden plover

   plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots

   green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit

   large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

   turnstone

   migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food

   Actitis hypoleucos, European sandpiper

   a variety of sandpiper

   Actitis macularia, spotted sandpiper

   common North American sandpiper

   Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint

   smallest American sandpiper

   Erolia alpina, dunlin, red-backed sandpiper

   small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

   Tringa nebularia, greenshank

   large European sandpiper with greenish legs

   Tringa totanus, redshank

   a common Old World wading bird with long red legs

   yellowlegs

   either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

   Calidris melanotos, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper

   American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

   Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback, knot

   a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

   Calidris Ferruginea, curlew sandpiper

   Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew

   Crocethia alba, sanderling

   small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world

   Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland plover, upland sandpiper

   large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands

   Philomachus pugnax, ruff

   common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season

   tattler

   any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry

   Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola

   short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock

   American woodcock, Philohela minor, woodcock snipe

   small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird

   Gallinago gallinago, whole snipe

   common snipe of Eurasia and Africa

   Gallinago gallinago delicata, Wilson's snipe

   American snipe

   Gallinago media, great snipe, woodcock snipe

   Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe

   Limnocryptes minima, half snipe, jacksnipe

   a small short-billed Old World snipe

   dowitcher

   shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

   European curlew, Numenius arquata

   common Eurasian curlew

   Eskimo curlew, Numenius borealis

   New World curlew that breeds in northern North America

   Hudsonian godwit, Limosa haemastica

   New World godwit

   Himantopus mexicanus, black-necked stilt

   stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck

   Himantopus himantopus, black-winged stilt

   stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings

   Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus, white-headed stilt

   stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck

   Himantopus novae-zelandiae, kaki

   blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt

   Cladorhyncus leucocephalum, banded stilt

   web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings

   Phalaropus fulicarius, red phalarope

   phalarope of northern oceans and lakes

   Lobipes lobatus, northern phalarope

   breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds; large flocks often seen far out at sea

   Steganopus tricolor, Wilson's phalarope

   breeds on the northern great plains of Canada

   Cursorius cursor, cream-colored courser

   courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World

   Pluvianus aegyptius, crocodile bird

   African courser that feeds on insect parasites on crocodiles

   type of:

   wader, wading bird

   any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food