| Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south. |
| Overall, however, the distinctive copulatory behavior of avocets and stilts seems relatively uniform across the family. |
| Burkett said there are thousands of avocets and skimmers on the Bolivar Flats now, as well as white pelicans, terns and other coastal species. |
| There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more. |
| Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges. |
| Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot. |
