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With him was Geoffrey McQuilkin, the Mono Lake Committee’s executive director, who held binoculars as he pointed out ospreys, American avocets, Wilson’s phalaropes and other birds.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

The Humber Estuary is a site of special scientific interest and along with Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve supports more than half a million birds annually including pink footed geese, puffins, avocets and bar-tailed godwits.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

Along the way, we saw a multitude of birds — avocets, oystercatchers, white spoonbills and plenty of seagulls, in the air and expertly walking on the mud, leaving their tiny tracks.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

When seasonal rains come to the lake it becomes a haven for birds such as Australian pelicans, red-necked avocets, and other water birds.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2015

Such water birds as the avocets, godwits, greater yellow-legs, long-billed curlew and Eskimo curlew are becoming very rare.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple