woodcock vs limicoline bird

woodcock and limicoline bird both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
woodcock	Yes	No	No	No
limicoline bird	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, limicoline bird is a hypernym of woodcock; that is, limicoline bird is a word with a broader meaning than woodcock:

woodcock: game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
limicoline bird: any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries

Other hypernyms of woodcock include shore bird, shorebird.

woodcock (noun)	limicoline bird (noun)
game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe	any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries