upland sandpiper

A large brownish sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) that breeds in fields and prairies of northern and central North America and winters in South America. Also called upland plover.

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up′land sand′piper

a short-billed North American sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of grasslands and cultivated fields.

[1825–35]

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upland sandpiper - large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands

Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland plover

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

Bartramia, genus Bartramia - a genus of Scolopacidae

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According to Bill Glass, the ecologist for the prairie, "Illinois's Department of Natural Resources found a number of threatened species of birds there," including the upland sandpiper, the bobolink and the loggerhead shrike.

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The three species that we modeled to settle randomly, upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) and eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna), had positive relationships between occurrence and field size when a complete census or proportional sampling was used, and therefore, would have been considered area sensitive by the methods used by some previous authors.

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While turkeys are now common in New York State, upland sandpiper populations are falling as the grassland habitat they depend upon disappears.

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