We found 3 definitions of sandpipers from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: sandpipers |
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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 dowitcher with a grey back | ||
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 (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit |