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n. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill with which it picks up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.

n. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

n. Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.

n. A small lamprey eel; the pride.

n. A small wading bird that runs along the sand and utters a piping note; a sand-lark, sand-plover, or sand-snipe.

n. A fish, the pride.

n. Of Pennant, the green sandpiper: called Tringa littorea by Linnæus, and Mr. Oldham's white heron by Albin.

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

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limicoline bird    shore bird    shorebird   

terek sandpiper    solitary sandpiper    baird's sandpiper    bonaparte's sandpiper    uniform sandpiper    waved sandpiper    black-breasted sandpiper    armed sandpiper    curlew sandpiper    wilson's sandpiper   

calidris canutus    actitis hypoleucos    tringa totanus    curlew sandpiper    grayback    yellowlegs    actitis macularia    redshank    bartramian sandpiper    red-backed sandpiper   

Calidris pusilla    Buff-breasted Sandpiper    Aechmorhynchus parvirostris    Tringa stagnatilis    Calidris himantopus    Common Sandpiper    Curlew Sandpiper    Sharp-tailed Sandpiper    Limicola falcinellus    Calidris ptilocnemis   

godwit    plover    killdeer    meadowlark    bittern    shrike    dotterel    bustard