Avocet vs. Avoset

Avocetnoun

Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

Avosetnoun

Same as Avocet.

Avocetnoun

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is Recurvirostra Americana.

Avocetnoun

long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

Avocet

The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin recurvus, and rostrum, .

‘curved backwards’; ‘bill’;