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Definition of Sandpipers
1. sandpiper [n] - See also: sandpiper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandpipers
Literary usage of Sandpipers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"The Snipes and sandpipers, with a few exceptions, inhabit commonly the muddy and
sandy shores of rivers, lakes, creeks and ponds: they likewise frequent, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"... to week through this winter were noted with some care because of their intimate
relation to the daily lives of the sandpipers during the same period. ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... the step between the snipes properly so called and the sandpipers, observing
that it leads by an easy gradation to the true sandpipers, or marine snipes ..."
4. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"Unlike most of our sandpipers this bird is essentially, solitary in its habits
and is never seen in compact flocks. Four or five may be found feeding on the ..."
5. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"SNIPES, sandpipers, ETC. Family SCOLOPACIDAE. Members of this family are long-legged
waders, of either large or small ..."
6. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"The Snipes and sandpipers, with a few exceptions, inhabit commonly the muddy and
sandy shores of rivers, lakes, creeks and ponds: they likewise frequent, ..."
7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"... to week through this winter were noted with some care because of their intimate
relation to the daily lives of the sandpipers during the same period. ..."
8. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... the step between the snipes properly so called and the sandpipers, observing
that it leads by an easy gradation to the true sandpipers, or marine snipes ..."
9. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"Unlike most of our sandpipers this bird is essentially, solitary in its habits
and is never seen in compact flocks. Four or five may be found feeding on the ..."
10. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"SNIPES, sandpipers, ETC. Family SCOLOPACIDAE. Members of this family are long-legged
waders, of either large or small ..."
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