curlew sandpiper
noun
a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
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How to use curlew sandpiper in a sentence
The haunt of one only—the curlew-sandpiper—still defies discovery.
In the West Country | Francis A. KnightIn Doctor Walter's posthumous notes he writes that the curlew sandpiper nested in numbers near his winter quarters.
Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) | Arthur Cleveland BentMost of these were ring-dotterels, dunlins, and curlew-sandpiper, the two latter in full summer-plumage.
Wild Spain (Espaa agreste) | Abel ChapmanAbsolutely nothing is known of the nidification of the curlew sandpiper, and its egg has never yet been described.
British Sea Birds | Charles Dixon
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