avocet

[ UK /ˈævɒsɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈævəˌsɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
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How To Use avocet In A Sentence

  • There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
  • Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot.
  • There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
  • Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew. Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
  • Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew. Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
  • Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.
  • Once, with the fingers of his right hand, Potato made dancing little movements, mimicking the avocet, and Jim suspected that he was wishing he could move about as easily as this bird. Centennial
  • Overall, however, the distinctive copulatory behavior of avocets and stilts seems relatively uniform across the family.
  • For avocets and dowitchers, the handling costs of large prey is likely relatively low; however, large prey were relatively scarce compared to small prey.
  • The observation hides at Cley Marsh provide excellent viewing for observers to enjoy the avocets.
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