Shorebirds

A large category of birds that includes the following: avocets, curlews, dowitchers, godwits, jacanas, lapwings,
oystercatchers, phalaropes, plovers, ruff, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, turnstones, willet, woodcocks and yellowlegs.
All are smallish with long legs. In general they can be found in open shoreline habitats where they forage for
aquatic insects and worms by probing the sand and mud with their bill.