upland sandpiper

upland sandpiper

n. A large brownish sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) that breeds in fields and prairies of northern and central North America and winters in South America. Also called upland plover.

up′land sand′piper

n. a short-billed North American sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of grasslands and cultivated fields. [1825–35]

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Noun

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upland sandpiper - large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplandsBartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland ploversandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the ploversBartramia, genus Bartramia - a genus of Scolopacidae