Sentence examples for a shorebird from inspiring English sources

Clark is tall and spindly and moves in a hoppy, twitchy way, like a shorebird.

The first one to be studied is the ruff, a shorebird that gathers in large groups during mating season.

For example, in the avocet, a shorebird with a characteristically upturned beak, when one flies in to take over incubation duties, the seated bird rises up in greeting.

The other was a shorebird called a Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva), a plump creature about 10 inches long, with a black belly and golden highlights in its feathers.

THE fate of the red knot, a shorebird that alights along the Delaware Bay to feed on horseshoe crab eggs during its annual migration, may rest in the hands of the state Legislature.

At the same time, the population of the red knot, a shorebird that travels from Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America to Canada with a two-week layover in the Delaware Bay, has dropped by 55percentt since 1986.

The ruff is a Eurasian shorebird with a complex lek mating system that includes a stable trimorphic polymorphism in male mating behaviour and morphology [ 9– 12].

Whiteside began his minor league career in 2001 with the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds of the South Atlantic League.

Three animals, or 2.6%, carried MRSA: two Eastern cottontail rabbits and a lesser yellowlegs, a migratory shorebird.

The dunlin is a migratory shorebird (suborder Charadrii) with a Holarctic breeding distribution and several recognized subspecies.

For this study, the species considered is the Snowy Plover (Charadrius a. nivosus), which is a threatened shorebird whose geographic range spans the northwest and southwestern gulf coasts of Florida.