1) Curlew 2) Dunlin 3) Greenshank 4) Plover 5) Redshank 6) Sanderling 7) Yellowlegs
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1) Desert musician 2) Limicoline bird 3) Shore bird 4) Shorebird 5) Well known bird
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Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particula...
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• (n.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. • (n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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any of numerous shorebirds belonging to the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes), which also includes the woodcocks and the snipes. The name ... [3 related articles]
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1. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. ... The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also browback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breast...
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Sand'pi`per noun 1. (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to
Tringa ,
Actodromas ,
Ereunetes , and various allied genera of the family
Tringidæ . » The most important North American species are the pectoral san...
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Sandpiper is a popular name applied to a number of birds belonging to the family Charadriidae. The common sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus), also known as the summer snipe, is about twenty centimeters long, and has olive-brown upper parts, a white chin, ash-coloured breast, and white under parts. The common sandpiper is to be found about streams in th...
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HMS Sandpiper was a British River Gunboat of 185 tons displacement launched in 1933. HMS Sandpiper was powered by an Admiralty 3-drum type boiler providing a top speed of 11.25 knots. She carried a complement of 40 and was armed with one 3.7 inch howitzer and nine smaller guns. In 1942 HMS Sandpiper was presented to the Chinese navy and renamed Yin...
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n] - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call
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noun any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
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Shorebird with a long, slender bill, which is compressed and grooved at the tip. They belong to the family Scolopacidae, which includes godwits, curlews, and snipes, order Charadriiformes
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