Definitions for: Sandpiper


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



Webster (1913) Definition: Sand"pi`per, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringid[ae].

Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (T. maritima: the
red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. canutus); the
semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the
spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis
macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites
subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or
upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European
species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, or
Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also fiddler,
peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe.
Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called
sandpipers.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.

Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

See Also: Actitis hypoleucos, Actitis macularia, Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, Calidris canutus, Calidris Ferruginea, Calidris melanotos, Crocethia alba, curlew sandpiper, dunlin, Erolia alpina, Erolia minutilla, European sandpiper, family Scolopacidae, grayback, greenshank, jacksnipe, knot, least sandpiper, limicoline bird, pectoral sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax, red-backed sandpiper, redshank, ruff, sanderling, Scolopacidae, shore bird, shorebird, spotted sandpiper, stint, tattler, Tringa nebularia, Tringa totanus, upland plover, upland sandpiper, yellowlegs

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