sandpiper (redirected from Sandpipers)

sand·pi·per  (sndppr)

n.

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill with which it picks up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.

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sandpiper

Noun

a wading shore bird with a long bill and slender legs

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sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae - sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers Actitis hypoleucos, European sandpiper - a variety of sandpiper Actitis macularia, spotted sandpiper - common North American sandpiper Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint - smallest American sandpiper dunlin, Erolia alpina, red-backed sandpiper - small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions greenshank, Tringa nebularia - large European sandpiper with greenish legs redshank, Tringa totanus - a common Old World wading bird with long red legs yellowlegs - either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs Calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe - American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback, knot - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere Calidris Ferruginea, curlew sandpiper - Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew Crocethia alba, sanderling - small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland plover, upland sandpiper - large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands Philomachus pugnax, ruff - common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season tattler - any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry