Defn: Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.
Defn: A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia.
Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
Defn: A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer.
Defn: A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia.
Whether the Sandpiper laid hold of the gravel at the bottom with its feet, or how it managed, I cannot tell, nor have I ever been able to account for it.
At the end of Bewick's description of the Green Sandpiper there is a very exact representation of a covert feather of the tail, and an inner-wing covert, which will give a better idea of their appearance than a page of letterpress.
The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I.
Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I.
He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye; Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I.
Almost at the same time we may notice the Common Sandpiper back again upon the shore, followed by Lapwings, Ringed Plovers, Greenshanks, and Curlews.
The habits of this Sandpiper very closely resemble those of the Dunlin, in whose company the bird is very frequently found, and from which it may readily be distinguished, even at a distance, by its pure white upper tail-coverts.
So closely is the Purple Sandpiper attached to the coast, that even during the nesting season, when its duties call it more or less inland, it always visits the shore to feed.
The Purple Sandpiper may pair for life, as there is some evidence to show that it returns annually to certain spots, to breed.
This Sandpiper is most partial to a rocky coast, where the huge boulders shelve down into the water, and large masses of rock and shingle are exposed at low tide.
Not a single Sandpiper nor Snipe does so, and but two or three Plovers, as we have already seen.
The fact that a few odd birds are sometimes met with on our shores during the summer, has led to the supposition--totally unsubstantiated as yet--that the Purple Sandpiper may breed here.
It just fitted their little bodies, and there were four eggs in it of which any sandpiper might well have been proud; for they were much, much bigger than most birds the size of Dot could ever lay.
For of course he was a grown-up sandpiper now, with a mate of his own, nodding her wise little head the livelong day, and teetering for joy all over the rocks where the red columbine grew.
No one who hears the wail of a frightened sandpiper begging protection for her young can sit unmoved.
Was that the way to speak to three big, 'most-grown-up sandpiper sons, who had wandered about so free of will the livelong day?
Now even Dodo could tell by the footprints on the sand whether a three-toed Plover or a four-toed Sandpiper had been pattering there.
There's another mite of a Sandpiper that comes around here late every summer, though it nests way up north.
The Least Sandpiper Length only five and a half to six inches--the very least in size of all the Snipe family.
The Spotted Sandpiper is another of the little fellows who sometimes nests back in those meadows.
The Spotted Sandpiper Length seven and a half inches.
Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach,-- One little sandpiper and I.
Almost every child I know is more familiar with Celia Thaxter's poem about the little sandpiper than with the bird itself.
Least sandpipers usually fly upward and onward if a deluge threatens; but they have a cousin, the semipalmated (half-webbed) sandpiper that swims well when the unexpected water suddenly lifts it off its feet.
Descriptions of the common species of sandpiper follow:-- 192.
It is a sandpiper of sorts, but it is not by any means easy to say which of the many sandpipers without shooting it.
As I approached the creek, a single spotted sandpiper was teetering along the edge of the water, and the next moment a big blue heron rose just beyond him and went flapping away to the middle of the marsh.
Meanwhile, the sandpiper has stolen away, I know not when or where.
I myself saw a young gentleman stand on the deck of an excursion steamer, with a rifle, and do his worst to kill or maim every living thing that came in sight, from a spotted sandpiper to a turkey buzzard!
The Pectoral Sandpiper was observed by Nelson in Alaska, in May, to fill its A"sophagus with air dilating the skin of the neck and breast and forming a sack as large as the body.
The song of the Bartramian Sandpiper would attract the attention of the least observant and the singular aA"rial evolutions of the Snipe and Woodcock lend an unusual interest to the study of these birds in the spring.
The Red-backed Sandpiper is not a bird architect and it does not build even a simple home.
Very early in the spring the Red-backed Sandpiper leaves its winter home in the States and countries bordering the Gulf of Mexico and starts on its long journey to the cooler region of the far north.
Imagine the sounds thus produced by the water run together into a steady and rapid trill some five or ten seconds in length, and the note of this Sandpiper is represented.
Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I.
Stanch friends are we, well-tried and strong, The littlesandpiper and I.
Either the duke must have seen our bird in one of its silent and meditative moods, or else, in the wilds of Canada where his grace speaks of having seen it, the sandpiper is a more taciturn bird than it is in the States.
Density habitat and mating system of the westernsandpiper (Calidris mauri).
Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry.
Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit across the beach, One little sandpiperand I.
He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye; Stanch friends are we, well-tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I.
The Pectoral Sandpiper is a well-known North-American species that visits the south during migration.
Bonaparte's Sandpiper is a third of the same category of Arctic Tringae that range far south after the breeding-season.
I was once pleased and much amused to discover in a small sequestered pool in a wood, well sheltered from sight by trees and aquatic plants, a Solitary Sandpiper living in company with a Blue Bittern.
Bartram's Sandpiper is another of those species which breed in North America, and extend their winter-migrations far into the Southern Hemisphere.
I have observed the Jacanas migrating by day, but would not for this reason affirm that they do not journey by night, since the Bartram's Sandpiper and other species journey both day and night.
When disturbed they rose together, the Bittern with its harsh grating scream, the Sandpiper daintily piping its fine bright notes--a wonderful contrast!
The name variabilis, changeable, has been applied to this species of Sandpiper on account of the great difference between its summer and winter plumage.
This sandpiper was noted each day along the beach, occasionally singly but more frequently in groups ranging from 10 to 50 individuals.
If the sandpiper had been a man, he would have called him up to shake hands with him.
More than three hours had passed since the sandpiper had got in front of his gun.
Yet he had no memory of the long fight in the hot sun, or of the river, or of the singing warblers, or of the inquisitive sandpiperthat had marked out the line which his enemy's last bullet had traveled.
The world about him was twisted and black, a dizzily revolving thing--yet his still fighting mental vision pictured clearly for him a monstrous, bulging-eyed sandpiper as big as a house.
The near-sighted little sandpiper had discovered him and seemed interested in the operation.
He could have tossed a pebble to where a bright-eyed sandpiper was cocking itself backward and forward, its jerky movements accompanied by friendly little tittering noises.
The Spotted Sandpiper has been obtained from two localities in Coahuila.
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