American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
The answer for a snipe-like shore bird is Knot.
There will obviously be some sort of bird in the world beginning with "u" but in Britain and Ireland there is no bird beginning with "u"
Larus Occidentalis or "Seagull"
Yes
Avocet
A shorebird is a type of bird that lives near the shore I think
curlew
It is a shore bird, similar to a small seagull.
Toucan
vulture
Guillemot
skua, gull, tern, auk, plover, skimmer, sandpiper