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Definition: curlew sandpiper
curlew sandpiper
n : Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew [syn:
Calidris Ferruginea
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Curlew sandpiper
Sandpiper
\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].
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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 hypoleucus
syn.
Tringoides hypoleucus), called also
fiddler,
peeper,
pleeps,
weet-weet, and
summer snipe
. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also
called sandpipers.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under
Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under
Stilt.
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Curlew
\Cur"lew\ (k[^u]r"l[=u]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu,
courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus
courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zo["o]l.)
A wading bird of the genus
Numenius, remarkable for its
long, slender, curved bill.
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Note: The common European curlew is
Numenius arquatus. The
long-billed (
Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian
(
Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew
(
Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is
said to imitate the note of the European species.
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Curlew Jack (Zo["o]l.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew.
Curlew sandpiper (Zo["o]l.), a sandpiper (
Tringa ferruginea
or
Tringa subarquata), common in Europe,
rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long,
curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
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