ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Catoptrophorus - willet

bird genus - a genus of birds

family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae - sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, willet - large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Los resultados del SIMPER demostraron que Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, Limosa fedoa, Larus occidentalis, Rynchops.

Avifauna del Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico

The foods of willets, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, and clapper rails, Rallus longirostis, consist of aquatic insects, polychaetes, small crabs, mollusks, fish larvae and small fish (Bent, 1929, 1963).

Removal of sea lettuce, Ulva spp., in estuaries to improve the environments for invertebrates, fish, wading birds, and eelgrass, Zostera marina

minutilla), and willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus).

Shorebirds and benthic fauna of tidal mudflats in Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico

pusillo (Linnaeus), I O semipalmated sandpiper Catoptrophorus semipalmatus I R (Gmelin), willet Gallinago delicata (Ord), I O Wilson's snipe Limnodromus griseus (Gmelin), I O short-billed dowitcher L.

Revised checklist of the vertebrates of Indiana

On the other hand, Wilson's plover (Charadrius wilsonia), American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), and willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) choose areas with scattered grasses and other plants.

2 Life on coastlines with tides

scolopaceus), Willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), Marbled Godwits (Limosa fedoa), Ruddy and Black Turnstones (Arenaria interpres and A.

THE IMPACTS OF A NONINDIGENOUS MARINE PREDATOR IN A CALIFORNIA BAY

Day and night feeding territoriality in willets Catoptrophorus semipalmatus and whimbrel Numenius phaeopus during the non-breeding season in the tropics.

A Review of Ecological Determinants of Territoriality within Vertebrate Species