Sentence examples for the shorebird from inspiring English sources
noun
A bird, or species of birds, that is found near the edge of bodies of water.
"Hurricane Sandy did significant damage to some long-term conservation work," Stephen Brown, director of the shorebird science division at the Manomet Center, said in a statement.
Like clockwork, the shorebird makes a crucial two-week stop each May in Delaware Bay; it is estimated that nearly 90 percent of the surviving Atlantic red knot population can be found there on a single May day.
In addition, there are the incredibly bizarre communal dances of the birds of paradise; the jungle-floor dancing of the cock of the rock; the pasture display grounds of the shorebird, the ruff; and the forest arenas cleared for displaying purposes by the tiny manakins.
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Preparations for long-distance flights demand a great part of the shorebird's year, and birds nesting on Alaska's northern coasts begin to form migration flocks as early as late June.
The higher the fractal dimension, the higher the fragmentation of the shorebird habitat.
The shorebirds exhibit a wide variety of bill types.
That is, unless the shorebirds -- the willets and plovers, turnstones and sanderlings -- get to them first.
When the tide shifted and small waves broke across the sand, the shorebirds roused themselves.
The gulls and their relatives (suborder Lari) are more dependent on flight for obtaining their food than are the shorebirds.
Berskon said, "My opinion is that we have enough crabs out there for the shorebirds, for the biomedical community and for some harvest".
