What is "shorebirds"

Usage examples of "shorebirds".

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.