stilt plover

Questions about stilt plover

What does stilt plover mean?

stilt plover means "long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons".

What is another word for stilt plover?

Close synonyms include stilt, stiltbird, longlegs, long-legs, Himantopus stilt. 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 stilt plover a common word?

stilt plover 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.