What's the difference between shorebird and willet?
Shorebird
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The hemagglutinin subtypes that are prevalent in wild ducks were rare or absent in shorebirds and gulls.
(2) A large pool of avirulent influenza viruses are maintained in the wild ducks and shorebirds of the world, but we know little about their potential to become virulent.
(3) (i) Two partly overlapping reservoirs of influenza A viruses exist in migrating waterfowl and shorebirds throughout the world.
(4) In contrast, a disproportionate number of viruses from shorebirds and all avirulent H5N2 influenza viruses from city markets provided a gene constellation that in association with cleavable H5 HA were highly virulent in chickens.
(5) There is evidence that seeds of many species can remain viable in the intestinal tract of some shorebirds long enough to be transported several thousand miles.
(6) This 'trigeminal expansion' forms a visible bulge on the surface of the brains of the Scolopacidae but not on the brains of related shorebirds in the Charadriidae; this difference would be evident in fossil endocast material and could provide new information on the evolution of the avian brain.
(7) These viruses included examples of the predominant subtypes in wild ducks, shorebirds, and domestic poultry.
(8) More than 15 species of migratory shorebirds use the wetland, including the red-necked stint and the sharp-tailed sandpiper, which are both endangered.
(9) Although common in shorebirds, they are very rare or absent in wild ducks; additionally, H13 viruses have been isolated from a whale.
(10) Those from human strains represent a single lineage, whereas the avian genes appear to have evolved as two lineages--one comprising genes from many kinds of birds (e.g., chickens, turkeys, shorebirds, and ducks) and the other comprising only genes from gulls.
(11) Shorebirds and gulls harbor influenza viruses when sampled in the spring and fall.
(12) Similarly all families tested in the shorebird order (Charadriiformes) are unique in having an enzyme that moves 55 percent as fast as the chicken enzyme.
Willet
Definition:
(n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Willets, the universities minister, announced the initial crackdown in a written statement in November.
(2) In South Carolina between 1971 and 1975, authors evaluated the occurrence of organochlorine residues in the laughing gull (Larus atricilla), white ibis (Eudocimus albus), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), and ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres).
(3) The original used the spellings Howard Stoat and David Willets.
(4) Species with short nests, willets and terns, minimized flood damage by nesting on higher ground than did gulls and rails that build tall nests.
(5) Willets had lower nest heights than the other species, probably because the inverse relation between grass height and ground height in the salt marsh makes it difficult for willets to find sites with high enough ground for flood avoidance while still retaining high enough grass for nest crypticity.
(6) Nest site characteristics associated with flood and predator avoidance were compared for four nonpasserine species of marsh-nesting birds: clapper rails, willets, laughing gulls, and common terns.