sandpiper

IPA: sˈændpaɪpɝ

Examples of "sandpiper" in Sentences

(Zool.) (a) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper ({Trigna minutilla}).
His only companion is a purple sandpiper, speckled and garrulous, who, he thinks, resembles him.
Two species of wader, the curlew sandpiper and little stint, do not breed in Britain but pass through on their journey south.
Arctic breeding shorebirds such as the dunlin, whimbrel and western sandpiper converge on the rich feeding grounds along the coasts from Louisiana to Florida.
The Seneca Indians believed the woodcock was made from the leftover parts of other birds -- bill of sandpiper, wings of teal, legs of stork, eyes of hawk -- and it fits.
The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica.
While I'm on the topic of recycling, I should mention, too, that the "sandpiper" product line introduced a year or so ago by our St. Catharines Ontario mill was the industry's first 100-per-cent post-consumer, non-de-inked writing paper.
He lost his wife to cancer, is a deep thinker – especially when out looking for a pectoral sandpiper or a black-tailed godwit – badly dressed, anti-consumerist and becomes convinced that, for all the police efforts, society is falling apart and "anarchy rules".