shore-bird

If plants and animals change their distribution in response to a changing climate as is expected (Chapters 7, 8, 9), critical habitats of wildlife (seabird nesting colony sites, reindeer/caribou calving grounds, waterfowl and shore-bird nesting and staging areas, marine mammal haul-out areas) will also change in their distribution over time.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Arctic 2009

If plants and animals change their distribution in response to a changing climate as is expected (Chapters 7, 8, 9), critical habitats of wildlife (seabird nesting colony sites, reindeer/caribou calving grounds, waterfowl and shore-bird nesting and staging areas, marine mammal haul-out areas) will also change in their distribution over time.

Management and conservation of wildlife in the Arctic 2009

I just admit it's sentiment rather than any real utility or inherent value that a particular species of non-thriving thus endangered shore-bird happens to hold.

A man shoots a feral cat that was stalking endangered shore birds. Ann Althouse 2007

I had seen him run ... he ran low to the ground, in flashes, like some sort of shore-bird.

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

I had seen him run ... he ran low to the ground, in flashes, like some sort of shore-bird.

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

Once in that tormented journey there was a sudden jingle of metal, like rattling handcuffs, in the man's ear and a heavy hand fell detainingly on his shoulder -- and he squeaked like a caught shore-bird and shrunk away from under the rough grips of a truckman who had yanked him clear of a lurching truck horse tangled in its own traces.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

They made me unhappy, they declared that I did not feel my unhappiness; I was almost banished from my father's house; they sent me to live among the rocks like a lonely shore-bird.

Indiana 1900

The cry of that shore-bird closely resembles the moaning of an abandoned child; and when it comes up from among the reeds you would say that it was the last effort of a drowning man.

Indiana 1900

Once, under Austin's and young Craig's supervision, she tried shore-bird shooting; but the first broken wing from the gun on her left settled the thing for ever for her, and the horror of the blood-sprinkled, kicking mass of feathers haunted her dreams for a week.

The Younger Set 1899

-- Apparently this is the next shore-bird species that will follow the Eskimo curlew into oblivion.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895