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Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

Dunlin :: Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America..

Tip-up :: Tip-up (n.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

Longirostres :: Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division..

Teeter-tail :: Teeter-tail (n.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..

Sea Lark :: Sea lark () Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling..

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Water Junket :: Water junket () The common sandpiper.

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover..

Pride :: Pride (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper..

Sea Sandpiper :: Sea sandpiper () The purple sandpiper.

Sanny :: Sanny (n.) The sandpiper.

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

Shadbird :: Shadbird (n.) The common European sandpiper.

Tattler :: Tattler (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus..

Tringoid :: Tringoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family..

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