Defn: Any species oflimicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres).
Its habits on the shore are very similar to those of the other Limicoline species.
Sociable at all times, and freely consorting with other Limicoline species on the coast, in winter, especially, the Redshank becomes very gregarious.
The phenomenon of the alteration of colour in the plumage of birds, and especially in Limicoline species, without moulting or an absolute change of the feathers, is a profoundly interesting one.
It is utterly impossible in a work like the present, which only attempts a slight sketch of marine bird-life on British coasts, to deal adequately with the astonishing amount of variation, even in this single organ of Limicoline birds.
Both these Godwits are readily distinguished from other Limicoline species on the British coasts by their long and recurved bills.
By far the greater number pass on to still more southern haunts, but a sufficiently large portion remain to winter as to render the species one of the most familiar of Limicoline forms to habitues of the coast.
Such parts of the coast that have little or no beach uncovered at high water, on which they may rest whilst the tide is turning, or at low water on which they can seek for food, are but little frequented by these Limicoline birds.
This species, (Numenius arquata), is not only the largest Limicoline bird that frequents the coast, but also one of the best known.
Comparatively speaking, the haunts frequented by Limicoline birds during summer, or the season of reproduction, are not, in the strict sense of the term, littoral ones.
With the present species we exhaust the number of Limicoline birds that nest upon the shore in the British Islands.
The young of all Limicoline birds are hatched covered with down, and are able to run soon after their breaking from the shell.
The underlying spots are "drab gray" to "light grayish olive" and are larger and more numerous than are found on the otherlimicoline eggs we collected at Hooper Bay.
The connecting series of limicoline voices, through the reedy calls of such marsh-loving birds as the pectoral sandpiper, leaves little doubt that there is a correlation between habitat and quality of voice.
It also, Rail-like, frequently alights on trees and fences, a habit I have not remarked in any other Limicoline species.
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