Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries

Usage examples of shorebird.

I was the only human at the best spot for shorebirds in this refuge, a spit of sand protruding from the salt marsh into one of the channels of Chincoteague Bay.

Then these shorebirds diversified to fill all the avian biological niches, much the way the finches that were blown to the Galapagos Islands have -within historical times -- developed many kinds of beaks to eat different types of food.

She ran through ragged patches of shorebirds scratching about for grubs and worms, startling them into raucous, whumping flight, hardly higher man her head before they settled back behind her.

Crows and shorebirds patrolled the flats while gulls wheeled overhead.

You are still standing on the seventh tee at Royal Dornoch, on seaside turf where golf has been played since at least 1616, and you hear the North Sea surf and the songs of shorebirds, and you feel the warmth of the midsummer sun setting down your line of sight.

In time, shorebirds nested and bred in the channels, and the manure they deposited, Campbell wrote, mixed with seeds blown toward the sea from inland.

Though seemingly remote from human sexuality, shorebird sexuality is instructive because it illustrates the main message of this book: a species' sexuality is molded by other aspects of the species' biology.