sandpiper
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Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call;
Closely related to the plovers (synset 102028713)is a type of: limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuariessubtypes:- 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, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper - 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
belongs to: family scolopacidae, scolopacidae - sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers
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