sandpiper

English

Etymology

From sand +‎ piper.

A pectoral sandpiper
(Calidris melanotos)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsænd.paɪpɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsænd.paɪpə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sandpiper (plural sandpipers)

1. Any of various small waders of the family Scolopacidae.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:

     Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs (setting up the sandpipers[.]

Derived terms

• Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
• Bartram's sandpiper, bartramian sandpiper, Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
• Bonaparte's sandpiper (Prosobonia spp.)
• broad-billed sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus)
• buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis)
• Christmas sandpiper (Prosobonia spp.)
• common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
• Cox's sandpiper (Actitis paramelanotos)
• curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
• green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
• least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
• marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)
• pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
• Polynesian sandpiper (Prosobonia spp.)
• purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
• rock sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)
• semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
• sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
• solitary sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
• spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus)
• spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
• stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
• Tahiti sandpiper (Prosobonia leucoptera)
• Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)
• Tuamotu sandpiper (Aechmorhynchus parvirostris)
• upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
• western sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
• white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
• wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

Translations

bird of the family Scolopacidae

• Albanian: qyrylyk m
• Arabic: دُرَّيْجَة f (durrayja)
• Catalan: territ m
• Chechen: цӏога лесто хин олхазар (cʼoga lesto xin olxazar)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎪᏮ (agowv)
• Czech: pisík m anim
• Dutch: strandloper (nl) m
• Faroese: grælingur m
• Finnish: sirri (fi), sirriäinen, vikla, viklo (fi), rantasipi (fi), liro (fi), rantakurvi (fi)
• French: chevalier (fr) m
• German: Wasserläufer (de) m, Strandläufer m
• Irish: gobadán m
• Italian: piovanello (it) m, piro-piro m, gambecchio (it) m
• Japanese: しぎ (ja) (shigi)
• Latvian: terekija f
• Lithuanian: terekija f
• Manx: looyran m
• Mi'kmaq: jijigwatej
• Michif: plavyii
• Polish: bekas (pl) m
• Portuguese: maçarico (pt) m
• Romanian: fugaci (ro) m
• Russian: перево́зчик (ru) m (perevózčik)
• Scottish Gaelic: luatharan m, bog an lòin m, dorra-tràigh m, ladhran-tràgha m, cìobair-tràighe m, bodhag f, ladhran m, sgràilleag f, cama-lùbach f, gobada-lìridh m, ladhran-tràghaid m, fìdhlear bòrd an locha m
• Spanish: playero (es) m, correlimos m
• Welsh: pibydd y traeth m, pibydd y dorlan m, gïach yr haf f, sneipen yr haf f

References

• sandpiper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scolopacidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Scolopacidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons