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curlew sandpiper

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curlew sandpiper
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
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Noun1.curlew sandpipercurlew sandpiper - Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
Calidris Ferruginea
sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Calidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae


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Among ruff and curlew sandpipers, however, only the females switched waxes.
That special wax lasts after courtship. (Zoology) by Science News
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