The plovers have short bills and live on insects; but the sandpipers that in greenish or brown-streaked coats flit along the shores pick up a more miscellaneous fare from the edge of the sea and on exposed tide flats.
The Red-back is not as active as the other sandpipers and its unsuspicious nature makes it seem quite stupid.
The sandpipers trip on the glassy beach, Ready to mount and fly; Whenever a ripple reaches their feet They rise with a timorous cry.
Illustration] A flock of friendly sandpipers and turnstones in wading.
Hodge) 243 A Flock of Friendly Sandpipersand Turnstones in Wading.
If by no other sign, you may distinguish sandpipers by their constant call, peep-peep.
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.
Beside the ocean a flock of sandpipers is needed to complete the beautiful picture; but on the table a sandpiper is beneath contempt.
I would as soon be caught stealing a sheep as to be seen trying to shoot fishy yellow legs or little joke sandpipers for the purpose of feeding upon them.
But from September onwards to the following spring, Plovers and Sandpipers are the most prominent characteristics of all the more low-lying coasts.
The Gulls are for the most part seen flying in the air or swimming upon the sea, but the Plovers and the Sandpipersspend the greater part of their time on the ground.
The bill of the typical Plovers differs strikingly from that of the Sandpipers and Snipes, inasmuch that it tapers from the base to the end of the nasal groove, then swells towards the tip.
A few Curlew Sandpipers arrive on our coasts in April, but the greater number pass along them in May, stragglers lingering until June.
Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
Defn: Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
Ecological factors influencing the breeding season schedule of western sandpipers (Calidris mauri) in sub-arctic Alaska.
Intensive studies near Barrow have done much to characterize the behavior, productivity, and ecological requirements of calidridine sandpipers (Pitelka 1959; Pitelka et al.
Numbers, breeding schedules, and territoriality in pectoral sandpipers of northern Alaska.
Sandpipers don't bore in the ground for their food, but just pick it up; so they keep along the shore of either fresh or salt water, some kinds choosing one place and some another.
The Snipe and both the Sandpipers belong to one family, the same as that of the Woodcock; but the Rail belongs to a different family.
The Redwings and Meadowlarks sing all day long, the Marsh Wrens come along to join in, the Snipe begin to call, the Spotted Sandpipers whistle up, and we get a visit from the Wild Geese as they fly north.
Because Sandpipers are long-legged little birds that run along the water's edge, where they patter about and whistle, but can't swim.
From the dark sky resounded for hours the cries of gulls and terns, sundry small land-birds, whimbrels, plovers and sandpipers of various species: besides harsher shrieks and notes that resembled those of hawks and herons of some kind.
Many of the Grey Plovers were superb specimens in perfect black-and-white plumage, and the Curlew-Sandpipers in richest rufous summer-dress.
Killdeers and sandpipers are noisy birds; and one would know, after half a day upon the marsh, even if he had never seen these birds before, that they could not have been bred here.
The sand had been blown by the wind into ridges and undulations, and over the more moist parts, large flocks of sandpipers were running about.
Flocks of white gulls were flying overhead, uttering their well- known cry, and sandpipers coursed along the edge of the water.
Less whimsical than their aristocratic neighbors who affect the tall tree-tops and shady bushes, the lady Sandpipers are more easily wooed and won.
Few species exhibit symptoms of greater distress than these Sandpiperswhen their breeding-grounds are approached by human beings.
From time to time the various Plovers and Sandpipers resort to their shallow margin, coming there to feed from nesting-places on the moors.
Brisson included it among the Sandpipersand called it Tringa merula aquatica; but Linnaeus, with more discernment, associated it with the Passeres in his genus Sturnus, which is now restricted to the typical Starlings.
I shot five ptarmigan, and four sandpipers were observed.
Many golden plovers and different kinds ofsandpipers were flying about, and a jager (L.
Eight cranes "winged their circling flight" northward, and half a dozen sandpiperswere seen.
The hares had already acquired their winter coat, and the golden plovers and sandpipers had all disappeared, but some Lapland and snow-buntings and the shore-lark were still to be seen.
On this day the first geese (laughing geese) and some sandpipers were seen, and one of each was shot.
Montagu says: "It is probable many of the Sandpipers are capable of swimming if by accident they wade out of their depth.
Did they need no older company, now that they looked like grown-up sandpipers except that their vests had no big polka dots splashed over them?
These sandpipers have the habit in common with others of their kind of suddenly elevating the wing directly over the back.
Semipalmated sandpipers like other shore birds often stand on one leg and even hop along on it in feeding and they also sleep in this attitude.
Audubon (1840) writes: The flight of these sandpipers is rapid and regular.
They are so much like sandpipers in appearance and in manner of flight that one is always surprised to see them alight on the water.
Like many other waders, these little sandpipers begin to move off their breeding grounds at a very early date.
In about a month they were fully fledged, and a week later the sandpipers were leaving for the south.
Semipalmated sandpipers on the breeding ground are the most gentle and interesting birds of the North.
This habit of these sandpipers in joining forces to help their neighbors was very noticeable both before and after the eggs had hatched.
Among the sandpipersthat visit India during the winter in large numbers are (1) Totanus glottis: The Greenshank.
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 we disappear in the forest I look back and see some ducks returning, and hear the sandpipers whistle us a taunting farewell!
The curlew is far away, so is the osprey; the sandpipers are still in the neighbourhood, they are too inquisitive to go far from us; they must needs watch us and find out all about us first.
In France seven species of Sandpipers are known, varying in size from that of the Sparrow to that of the Thrush.
The Sandpipers are natives of the northern parts of the Old and New World; they visit France twice a year--in spring and autumn.
Two or three solitary cormorants would be shooting back and forth at a furious rate, or swimming in midstream; and sometimes a few spotted sandpipers and killdeer plovers were feeding along the shore.
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin.
In the late evening of this same day, the number of pectoral sandpipers increased and although some were moving westward, most of them were moving eastward.
The day before there were only a few sandpipers and these were not especially on the move.
Kaolak River, we heard a ptarmigan joining an Arctic tern and several sandpipers in protest to a passing red fox.
Sandpipers also migrate up the Thames in spring, and down it in autumn.
Sandpipers appeared, and much weed, some of it very old and some quite fresh and having fruit.
More than fortysandpipers came to the ship in a flock, and two boobies, and a ship's boy hit one with a stone.
The translator vacillates between sandpipers and terns in rendering pardelas.
Thus some morning in early May one sees the marismas filled with godwits and knots, curlew-sandpipers and grey plovers, all in their glorious summer-plumage.
Kites beat along the stony hills, where wheatears and stonechats fluttered incessant, with dippers and sandpipers on the burn below.
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