sandpipers in English

noun
1
a wading bird with a long bill and typically long legs, nesting on the ground near water and frequenting coastal areas on migration.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers .

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1. Fred loves to watch the sandpipers.

2. Sandpipers at the beach doing the same thing.

3. The two of us are sandpipers Wearing slippers of blue.

4. Birds include coots, hawks, herons, quail, ravens, sandpipers, vultures, and hundreds of other species.

5. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the great knot.

6. Curlew sandpipers breed on the Siberian tundra, a quarter-span of the globe to the east of Britain

7. Curlews are a small group of sandpipers, all of which are in the Numenius genus

8. There are also the look-alike sandpipers and fall plumage wood warblers and all those in between.

9. These woodland relatives of our sandpipers and shorebirds are truly spectacular Acrobats who put on a mesmerizing performance against the twilight sky

10. ‘Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, Avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.’

11. Curlew definition is - any of various largely brownish chiefly migratory birds (especially genus Numenius) having long legs and a long slender down-curved bill and related to the sandpipers and snipes.

12. Birds are divided into eight main visual categories: (1) swimmers—ducks and ducklike birds, (2) aerialists—gulls and gull-like birds, (3) long-legged waders—herons and cranes, (4) smaller waders—plover and sandpipers, (5) fowllike birds—grouse and quail, (6) birds of prey—hawks, eagles, and owls, (7) passerine (perching) birds, and (8) nonpasserine land birds.—A Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies, by Roger Tory Peterson.