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60 species with the same general shape as Shorebirds
American Avocet
American Golden-Plover
American Oystercatcher
American Woodcock
Baird's Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black Oystercatcher
Black Rail
Black Turnstone
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Clapper Rail
Curlew Sandpiper
Dunlin
Gray-headed Swamphen
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Killdeer
King Rail
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Mountain Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Ridgway's Rail
Rock Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Sora
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Surfbird
Upland Sandpiper
Virginia Rail
Wandering Tattler
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Yellow Rail
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American Kestrel by Blair Dudeck / Macaulay Library