Shore birds
The crossword clue "Shore birds" is answered by TERNS, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TERNS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERNS answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- PLOVERS (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for TERNS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TERNS, most used first.
- Sea birds - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Sea swallows - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Shorebirds - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Shore fliers - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Gull relatives - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Gull cousins - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Gull-like birds - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Aquatic birds - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Beach birds - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Fork-tailed fliers - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Fork-tailed seabirds - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Beach flock - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Gulls' kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Seabirds - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- For the birds? - AVIAN, used 103 times
- Honking birds - GEESE, used 82 times
- Sea birds - ERNES, used 53 times
- Diving birds - LOONS, used 52 times
- Of birds - AVIAN, used 48 times
- Extinct birds - DODOS, used 41 times
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