English > shorebird: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries. |
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| Synonyms | shore bird, limicoline bird |
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| Member of | Charadrii, suborder Charadrii | shorebirds |
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| Narrower | avocet | long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill |
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| courser | swift-footed terrestrial / terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa |
| curlew | large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family |
| godwit | large wading bird that resembles a curlew |
| oystercatcher, oyster catcher | Black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill |
| phalarope | small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers |
| plover | Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings |
| pratincole, glareole | Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs |
| sandpiper | Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call |
| snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family |
| stilt, stiltbird, longlegs, long-legs, stilt plover, Himantopus stilt | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons |
| stilt, Australian stilt | long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia |
| stone curlew, thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint |
| surfbird, Aphriza virgata | sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America |
| woodcock | game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe |
| Broader | wading bird, wader | Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food |
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| Spanish | limícola |
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| Catalan | limícola |
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