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 Game Commission says wild waterfowl and shorebirds are considered natural carriers of bird flu and might shed the virus despite appearing healthy.
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Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The piping plover, a shorebird found in Indiana along Lake Michigan, looks similar to its bigger relative, the killdeer, which is more commonly found across Indiana in wide-open spaces like fields and even parking lots.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025
Mixed among the dinosaur traffic are small, thin-toed impressions suggesting shorebird-like foragers were also present.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
This surveillance program means that Webby and his colleagues knew that H5N5 viruses had been circulating in shorebirds and gulls in eastern Canada.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2025
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Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The piping plover, a shorebird found in Indiana along Lake Michigan, looks similar to its bigger relative, the killdeer, which is more commonly found across Indiana in wide-open spaces like fields and even parking lots.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025
Mixed among the dinosaur traffic are small, thin-toed impressions suggesting shorebird-like foragers were also present.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
This surveillance program means that Webby and his colleagues knew that H5N5 viruses had been circulating in shorebirds and gulls in eastern Canada.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Shorebird.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shorebird. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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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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