Sentence examples for shore bird from inspiring English sources

The federally endangered species, a mild-mannered shore bird whose progeny resemble powder puffs on stilts, is again holding the town hostage.

— Sam Sifton Asbury Park Press: Fascinating story off a new government survey shows a clear link between the health of the horseshoe crab population and the viability of the red knot shore bird.

Mr. Lockley's bird work drew the interest of Buckingham Palace, where officials wondered if he could find a pet razorbill, a shore bird species, for Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

"Saw tracks of a shore bird probably a sanderling, and followed them a little, then they turned toward the water and were soon obliterated by the sea," she wrote in field notes that she kept in spiral-bound notebooks.

A bald man with a thick Mississippi accent and the skittish manner of a shore bird, Shettles had a wife and seven children living in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Smoothness of surface and reduction of form, two hallmarks of modernism, are evident in Pompon's "Moor Hen" (1923), whose rounded volumes and streamlined shape add up to a sleek, Minimalist version of a shore bird.

I'm pretty good on the shore birds now".

Other birds that have been found include brown pelicans, terns, loons and shore birds.

Water and shore birds migrate in fall and spring between northern Europe and the tropics.

MANHASSET Manhasset Public Library "All About Shore Birds," lecture by John Turner, adjunct professor of ornithology at SUNY Stony Brook.

The coastal zones and interior waterways attract many species of water and shore birds.