curlew sandpiper

noun

1. a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage

Example Sentences

The haunt of one only—the curlew-sandpiper—still defies discovery.

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In Doctor Walter's posthumous notes he writes that the curlew sandpiper nested in numbers near his winter quarters.

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Most of these were ring-dotterels, dunlins, and curlew-sandpiper, the two latter in full summer-plumage.

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Absolutely nothing is known of the nidification of the Curlew Sandpiper, and its egg has never yet been described.

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