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Definition of Shorebirds
1. shorebird [n] - See also: shorebird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shorebirds
Literary usage of Shorebirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecosystem Matters: Activity and Resource Guide for Environmental Educators by Mary Adams (1995)
"shorebirds must prepare themselves physically for their strenuous migrations.
... shorebirds feed almost constantly for two weeks, often doubling their ..."
2. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"Turnstone (Arenaria inter pres). Upland plover (Bartramia longicauda). shorebirds are
fond of other insect pests of forage and grain crops, including the ..."
3. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"The data on the breeding and wintering of the shorebirds has been collated from
all available printed sources, from the manuscript reports of the field ..."
4. Birds of North Americaby Jim Roetzel by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"Honeymoon Island, Florida Oystercatchers shy away from other shorebirds while
... These large shorebirds feature downward-curving bills that can be over ..."
5. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1915)
"The problem of protecting our shorebirds is complicated by their extended ...
Few shorebirds put less than a thousand miles between their winter and summer ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Thus, to show the insufficiency of the data on the breeding and wintering of
certain of the shorebirds, he states that the Northern Phalarope "is a common ..."
7. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"WL McAtee, in a recent circular of the Biological Survey, sums up our knowledge
of the office of shorebirds in the control of mosquitoes as follows: ..."
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