Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various birds that frequent the shores of coastal or inland waters, such as a sandpiper, plover, or snipe.
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- noun A bird, or species of
birds , that is found near the edge of bodies of water.
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- noun any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term shorebird is applied to a group of long-legged, slender-billed, and usually plainly colored birds belonging to the order Limicolae.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Killdeer are common in our area; although classified as a shorebird, they are commonly seen nesting in fields, golf courses or parking lots - often far from water.
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Summary: This study estimates the chance that the snowy plover, a small shorebird that breeds on sand and gravel coastlines, will become extinct in Florida due to sea level rise.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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A second possibility would be a large shorebird, like a yellowlegs, which are migrating right now.
Where do dead birds go? — Part 48B AYDIN 2009
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A description of the Greater Yellowlegs shorebird—Nor does she wear her loneliness like a shroud.
Coastal Disturbances Alexandra Mullen 2011
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Summary: This study estimates the chance that the snowy plover, a small shorebird that breeds on sand and gravel coastlines, will become extinct in Florida due to sea level rise.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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On Isle Grand Terre, LSU researcher Richard Gibbons saw a black-bellied plover, a skinny-legged shorebird, with oil on its face.
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Satellite tracking allowed researchers to follow a female shorebird who flew 7,145 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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In another experiment, Tinbergen showed that a mother oystercatcher, a shorebird, may make an equally strange choice.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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A shorebird repeatedly dunks its face in a puddle, unable to wash off.
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