shorebird
noun
shore·bird
ˈshȯr-ˌbərd 
: any of a suborder (Charadrii) of birds (such as a plover or sandpiper) that frequent the seashore
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The dynamic beach and dune habitats there are home to a whopping 370 different bird species, from migratory waterfowl to shorebirds to raptors.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
By analyzing surveillance data like the kind collected by Webby and his team, the Penn team found that the H5N1 outbreak that began in 2021 in North America was driven by eight separate introductions of the virus by wild, migrating waterfowl and shorebirds along the Atlantic and Pacific flyways.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Bird flu is most often seen in domestic and wild birds including waterbirds, like ducks, geese and swans, and shorebirds, like storks, the CDC said.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of squawking, migrating shorebirds descend on these beaches to gorge themselves on the protein- and fat-rich eggs.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
By analyzing surveillance data like the kind collected by Webby and his team, the Penn team found that the H5N1 outbreak that began in 2021 in North America was driven by eight separate introductions of the virus by wild, migrating waterfowl and shorebirds along the Atlantic and Pacific flyways.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Bird flu is most often seen in domestic and wild birds including waterbirds, like ducks, geese and swans, and shorebirds, like storks, the CDC said.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of squawking, migrating shorebirds descend on these beaches to gorge themselves on the protein- and fat-rich eggs.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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shorebird
noun
shore·bird
ˈshō(ə)r-ˌbərd
ˈshȯ(ə)r-
: any of a group of birds (as a plover or sandpiper) that frequent the seashore
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