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Curlew sandpiper

noun
1.
Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew.  Synonym: Calidris Ferruginea.





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"Curlew sandpiper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tringa subarquata, Gueldenstaedt. French, "Becasseau cocorli."—The Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy Curlew as it is sometimes called, can only be considered a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands. I have never seen or shot one there myself, but Mr. Couch records one in the 'Zoologist' for 1874 as having been shot near the Richmond Barracks on the 5th ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith


Words linked to "Curlew sandpiper" :   sandpiper, Calidris, genus Calidris


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