shore bird

British  

noun

1. Also called (Brit): wader.  any of various birds that live close to water, esp any bird of the families Charadriidae or Scolopacidae (plovers, sandpipers, etc)

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Example Sentences

But even though Anna has real grit and sadness to her, she feels peripheral to the deepest currents of the story: a shore bird, not a fish.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The Caminada project had another surprise benefit - becoming one of the nation’s biggest nesting colonies for least terns, a shore bird threatened by habitat loss.

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2018

Interior Department modify buffers around shore bird and turtle nests by about mid-June.

From Washington Times • Jan. 25, 2015

Small birds there are, of course, in numbers, such as wag-tails, sandpipers, and the oddly crying and flying redshank, a shore bird.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)

The gray plover, our accurate observer remarks, is a winter shore bird, found only at that season and in that habitat, in this country.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell