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Definition of shorebird
: any of a suborder (Charadrii) of birds (such as a plover or sandpiper) that frequent the seashore
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A wetland restoration project near the Del Mar Fairgrounds has turned a former parking lot into a salt marsh, populated by shorebirds, fish and fiddler crabs.
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Some 40% of migrating North American waterfowl and shorebirds use the route.
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The willet, a large shorebird familiar to even casual observers on our coast, may one day be split into the Eastern willet and the Western willet.
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The researchers used western sandpipers, one of 93 shorebird species that saw their numbers decline after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The flooding, combined with sea level rise, habitat loss, saltwater intrusion and subsidence, leaves shorebirds with a bleak future.
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One bright spot was found on Elmer's Island, where the survival rate for shorebirds was higher than much of the coast, presumably thanks to a recent beach restoration project.
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King Cove is on the Alaska Peninsula between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, separated from Cold Bay by the Izembek refuge, a key gathering point for migratory waterfowl and shorebirds.
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Half a million wintering and migratory shorebirds, and millions more ducks and geese, stop for days, weeks, months to eat and rest on the Pacific Flyway, one of four continental migration routes.
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First Known Use of shorebird
circa 1672
SHOREBIRD Defined for Kids
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\ˈshȯr-ˌbərd\
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: a bird (as a plover or sandpiper) that frequents the seashore
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