### animal | vertebrate | bird | shorebird | godwit:

Marbled godwit
* Marbled Godwits are large shorebirds with slightly upturned bills
  - the only mostly cinnamon colored godwit in North America
* are big, light brown shorebirds with long legs.
* breed once per year.
* change their diet depending on the time of year and place where they live.
* communicate by making noises, or calling.
* have large territories where they feed and have their nests.
* live in a larger area than any other kind of godwit.
* move slowly while feeding.
* spend most of their time on the ground, and can walk quickly as well as run.

Many shorebird
* Most many shorebirds have migratory paths
* Some many shorebirds eat mollusks.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | shorebird:

Plover
* Many plovers have black breast bands.
* Most plovers consume diets
  - feed on insects
* Most plovers have faces
  - yellowish faces
  - live in areas
* Some plovers consume invertebrate worms
  - marine worms
* Some plovers have beaks
  - coloration
  - feathers
  - protective coloration
  - similar coloration
  - possess bodies
* Some plovers reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
  - use dry salt ponds and river gravel bars.
  * are found throughout the world, and have short bills. They wade in the water, and hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipe do
  - a native species and are protected by the Nature Conservation Act
  - able to breed in their first year
* are found across Australia
  - in most parts of the world
  - throughout the world , and have short bills
  - small to medium size with stout bodies and a short neck and tail
  - swift when flying and forage on the ground or in shallow water for food
  - usually black or brown above and white below, and have short bills
  - very site tenacious and return year after year to the same nesting territory
* can be difficult to see because of their cryptic coloration and behavior.
* do form flocks in Hawaii, usually at night, when they sleep.
* eat insects found around the mudflats and in the marsh
  - large numbers of alien invertebrates, plentiful on the main islands
* gather together in groups prior to their southward migration.
* have a defined beachfront territory
  - calls
  - large eyes and locate their food visually by picking it from the surface of wet soil
* includes air sacs
  - bird's feet
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - lips
  - mouths
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - talons
  - vacuoles
  - wishbones
* move while feeding.
* nest on sandy beaches which also attract people
  - wide, open beaches with a mix of cobble and sand
  - right on the beach, and their chicks run around like crazy after hatching
* often gather in groups on undisturbed beaches prior to their southward migration
  - return to the same breeding sites year after year
* stalk their prey, stopping occidentalis, is the most abundant species on the open coast.
* usually select a breeding range that they share with bison and black tailed prairie dogs.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | shorebird | plover:

Killdeer
* Some killdeers raise two broods per breeding season.
* are related to plovers.
* feed mainly on insects, earthworms and small crustaceans.

Lapwing
* are shorebirds.
* provide complex migratory patterns.
+ Southern Lapwing: Charadriiformes
  * Lapwings are shorebirds. It is a common in Central and South America, except in the jungles of the Amazon and the Andes. It is the national bird of Uruguay.

Mountain plover
* perform uniparental incubation by both sexes.
* winter primarily in California in the Central and Imperial valleys.