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

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

The shore bird again, which does not like to swim, is nevertheless continually obliged to enter the water when searching after its prey.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel