curlew sandpiper

curlew sandpiper

n (Animals) a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage

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curlew sandpiper - Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlewCalidris Ferrugineasandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the ploversCalidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae