limicoline bird

Thesaurus

Noun

1.limicoline bird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuariesshore bird, shorebirdwader, wading bird - any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of foodCharadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlewsplover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpiperssandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the ploversAphriza virgata, surfbird - sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South Americawoodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipesnipe - Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcockscurlew - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved billgodwit - large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned billHimantopus stilt, longlegs, long-legs, stilt plover, stiltbird, stilt - long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoonsAustralian stilt, stilt - long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australiaavocet - long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving billoyster catcher, oystercatcher - black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.phalarope - small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropicsglareole, pratincole - Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the courserscourser - swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincolesBurhinus oedicnemus, stone curlew, thick-knee - large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint