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sand·pi·per

(sănd′pī′pər)
n.
Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.
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sandpiper

(ˈsændˌpaɪpə)
n
1. (Animals) any of numerous N hemisphere shore birds of the genera Tringa, Calidris, etc, typically having a long slender bill and legs and cryptic plumage: family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes
2. (Animals) any other bird of the family Scolopacidae, which includes snipes and woodcocks
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sand•pi•per

art at sandbank
(ˈsændˌpaɪ pɛr)

n.
any of various plump, thin-billed shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, of cosmopolitan distribution, typically with brown, gray, or white plumage.
[1665–75]
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Noun 1. [画像:sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call]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 sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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 - common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
tattler - any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
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Translations
jespák

sandpiper

[ˈsændˌpaɪpəʳ] N → andarríos m, lavandera f
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sandpiper

[ˈsændˌpaɪpəʳ] n (also common sandpiper) → piro piro piccolo
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It is remarkable from its quiet habits; it lives entirely on the sea-beach, like a sandpiper. Besides these birds only few others inhabit this broken land.
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Rock Sandpipers also appeared to move from north to south within upper Cook Inlet during these two cold periods.
Coping with the cold: an ecological context for the abundance and distribution of rock sandpipers during winter in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska
Washington, August 10 ( ANI ): Polygynous male pectoral sandpipers that sleep the least sire the most young during the breeding season, according to a new study.
Less sleep means more offspring for male pectoral sandpipers
The second book relates the adventures of a family of Terek Sandpipers that migrate annually from the northern hemisphere to spend summer in Australia.
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A great northern diver was in Foryd Bay, up to three firecrests remain at RSPB Conwy and a record 23 purple sandpipers roosted at Rhos Point on Christmas Day.
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The birdsireland.com director said there have been a number of sightings of American Sandpipers and gulls along the west coast.
EXOTIC BIRDS BLOWN HERE BY HURRICANE
TIME is running out for anyone keen to buy a luxury apartment at Sandpipers or Tiddington Grange in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Sandpipers (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae) feed primarily on invertebrates (Skagen & Oman 1996).
Stomach contents of Calidris minutilla (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae) wintering at a freshwater reservoir in west-central Texas
The discovery of 84 spoon-billed sandpipers in a coastal stretch of Burma offers hope for saving the endangered birds, conservationists Bird Life International said today.
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Vitalise has five accessible centres in the UK, one of which is Sandpipers in Southport.
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Fragmentary fossils of Gansus yumenensis collected earlier had suggested that it was a wading bird similar to today's sandpipers, says Jerald D.
Ancient webbed masters
Deer mice, red foxes and spotted sandpipers are but a few of the other species where the man of the nest/pond/hollow is top-notch, said Hartmann, who works as a hydrologist with the University of Arizona and the National Weather Service.
In some nests, father nature knows - and does - best

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