least sandpiper

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Related to least sandpiper: sanderling, Solitary Sandpiper, spotted sandpiper

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least sandpiper - smallest American sandpiper

sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

Erolia, genus Erolia - a genus of Scolopacidae

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The agency has also gunned down the brown-headed cowbird, boat-tailed grackle, common raven, American crow, fish crow and waterfowl and wading birds that relish the coastal wetlands neighboring Kennedy, such as the wood duck, bufflehead, American wigeon, semipalmated plover, sanderling, least sandpiper, black-crowned night heron, great egret and cattle egret, according to Port Authority records.

Wildlife control contractors have shot almost 26,000 birds at New York JFK airport

A total of 14 birds representing two species of Calidris, Least Sandpiper (C.

Stomach contents of Calidris minutilla (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae) wintering at a freshwater reservoir in west-central Texas

In 2006 and 2007, 1,050 shorebirds (Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri, and Least Sandpiper, C.

Rarity of influenza a virus in spring shorebirds, Southern Alaska

The second category includes the least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) and spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia), which breed at lower latitudes within Alaska and occasionally occur in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range.

Distribution of breeding shorebirds on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska

-A NORTH American Least Sandpiper - the world's smallest wader - arrived at Startop's End Reservoir, Herts, this month - taking care to avoid being trampled by Canada Geese.

PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE: HOT FLIGHTS A GREAT HOBBY

Readers are not told that MacFarlane, from the shortlived Fort Anderson, "contributed more specimens in a single year than any other collector in the museum's history" (Deignan, 1947:7), including 170 sets of lesser golden-plover eggs, 70 of the red-necked phalarope, 30 of the lesser yellowlegs, 20 each of the semipalmated plover, least sandpiper, and buff-breasted sandpiper, and the firstever egg sets of the stilt sandpiper (three) and the sanderling (one).

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An Arctic-breeding bird survey on the northwestern Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, Canada

The most common species within the study area include Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis), American tree sparrow (Spizella arborea), horned lark (Eremophila alpestris), and least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla).