Shorebirds

Oh, okay.

So there are birds in the Shra- so the, in this, uh, in the Charadriiformes, like the sandpipers and they, there are godwits that are breeding in Alaska and then migrating nonstop to New Zealand to spend the non-breeding season, and there's nothing like this in oystercatchers.

So I think their expansion over historical time has basically just been moving small distances [laughs] -

Oh, okay.

Yes

... um, stuff like that.

And there's lots of variation across the Charadriiformes in terms of bill length.

So there are these birds like long-billed curlew, which have this giant bill.