shore birds
Coastal feathered foragers
Shore birds are birds that inhabit coastal areas, mudflats, and shallow waters—sandpipers, plovers, herons, and the like.
They typically have long legs for wading and specialized bills for probing sand or mud for food.
The term is somewhat informal; ornithologists prefer "shorebirds" as one word or use more precise classifications like waders.
- sanderlingPale wave-following shorebird
- ploversShort-billed coastal waders
- long legsExtended lower limbs
- sandpipersSmall probing shorebirds
- curlewsLong-billed migratory shorebirds
spindly legs · tern · avocet · oystercatcher · godwit · turnstone · tide · high tide line · tidal flats · mud flats · estuaries · coastal wetlands · dunlin · salt marshes · whimbrel · beak · migratory patterns · scurry
- Pacific CoastPacific Ocean, beach, Pacific coast, sand, Pacific beaches
- tidepoolstidepools, tide pools, tide pool, rockpools, rock pools
- coastal sensationssea breeze, salt air, sea spray, crashing waves, coastal fog
habitat
shore birdsseabirds
Ocean-dwelling avians
songbirds · passerines · raptors · birds of prey · seagulls