shore bird

Questions about shore bird

What does shore bird mean?

shore bird means "any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries".

What is another word for shore bird?

Close synonyms include shorebird, limicoline bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shore bird a common word?

shore bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.