limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries

Charadriidae, family Charadriidae - plover family

Charadrius melodus, piping plover - small plover of eastern North America

Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover - American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry

Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus - rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia

golden plover - plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots

green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

turnstone - migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food