sandpiper

Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.

A small wading bird that runs along the sand and utters a piping note; a sand-lark, sand-plover, or sand-snipe.

A fish, the pride.

Of Pennant, the green sandpiper: called Tringa littorea by Linnæus, and Mr. Oldham’s white heron by Albin.

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.

A small lamprey eel; the pride.

See under Curlew.

See under Stilt.

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

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