 One of our most familiar shorebirds doesn't live on the shore at all. The handsome killdeer is a year-round resident of open fields, lawns, parking lots, and even driveways. The long-billed curlew, which winters on the Florida, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, actually heads inland to nest in the grasslands and sagebrush of the arid west. That's about as onshore-like as it gets.