wader, wading bird - any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

Charadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews

plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

Aphriza virgata, surfbird - sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America

woodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

snipe - Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

curlew - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill

godwit - large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill

Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird, stilt - long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

Australian stilt, stilt - long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia

avocet - long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

oyster catcher, oystercatcher - black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.

phalarope - small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics

glareole, pratincole - Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers

courser - swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa

Burhinus oedicnemus, stone curlew, thick-knee - large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint