鷸蚌 （イツボウ） a snipe and a clam, a snipe and a mussel

鷸蚌の争い （イツボウノアラソイ） fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does), a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)

鷸 （しぎ） sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

鷸駝鳥 （しぎだちょう） tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)

背高鴫 （せいたかしぎ） black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus), stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae), avocet

反嘴背高鷸 （そりはしせいたかしぎ） pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)