SHORE BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shore bird mean? 

• SHORE BIRD (noun)
  The noun SHORE BIRD has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries

  Familiarity information: SHORE BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORE BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird

Hypernyms ("shore bird" is a kind of...):

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shore bird"):

plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Aphriza virgata; surfbird (sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America)

woodcock (game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)

snipe (Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks)

curlew (large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill)

godwit (large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill)

Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird (long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons)

Australian stilt; stilt (long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia)

avocet (long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill)

oyster 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 tropics)

glareole; pratincole (Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers)

courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)

Burhinus 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)

Holonyms ("shore bird" is a member of...):

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)

 Context examples 

Perhaps it was this—perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach—at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)