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单词 sandpiper
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Definition of sandpiper in English:

sandpiper

noun ˈsan(d)pʌɪpəˈsæn(d)ˌpaɪpər
  • A wading bird with a long bill and typically long legs, nesting on the ground by water and frequenting coastal areas on migration.

    Family Scolopacidae (the sandpiper family): several genera, especially Calidris, Tringa, and Actitis, and numerous species. The sandpiper family also includes the godwits, curlews, redshanks, turnstones, phalaropes, woodcock, snipe, and ruff

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south.
    • A cormorant flew low over the water, long neck held in a serpentine curve; sandpipers and turnstones tottered among the rocks.
    • The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers.
    • A brief summary of the meeting's minutes are as follows: we're fairly confident that we've seen willets in the past and there's no way Sara is going to drive out to Jamaica Bay just to solidify a sandpiper sighting.
    • This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper.
    • Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
    • Here breeding grounds are shared with broad-billed sandpipers and sometimes red-necked phalaropes.
    • More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
    • Herons, Egyptian geese, stilts and sandpipers are already frequent visitors to the site.
    • It has a round head with large, black eyes, and a relatively short bill for a sandpiper.
    • There are birds in the garden that are rarely seen in London, such as the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat, with smew and goosander on the lake in winter.
    • These include the spoon-billed sandpiper which breeds in northeast Russia.
    • This can be difficult to see and is not diagnostic, as other sandpipers also have these webbed feet.
    • Traditionally, the five species of peeps in North America are the Baird's, Least, Semipalmated, Western, and White-rumped sandpipers.
    • On a hot May morning, I plodded along the forest track, waving at mosquitoes and hoping that the neurotic wood sandpipers would calm down.
    • Currently there are 23 ongoing ACF projects involving experimentation with mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, ducks, sandpipers, and zebra finches.
    • When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding on Monomoy.
    • The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
    • Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view.
    • This stretch of the river is usually good for sandpipers and orioles, yet all we could come up with was a lone Least Sandpiper.
 
 

Definition of sandpiper in US English:

sandpiper

nounˈsan(d)ˌpīpərˈsæn(d)ˌpaɪpər
  • A wading bird with a long bill and typically long legs, nesting on the ground near water and frequenting coastal areas on migration.

    Family Scolopacidae (the sandpiper family): several genera, especially Calidris, Tringa, and Actitis, and numerous species, including the western sandpiper (C. mauri), which breeds on the seashores of Alaska and winters from the southern US to Peru, and the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), which prefers lakes and streams and is the most widespread North American sandpiper. The sandpiper family also includes the godwits, curlews, redshanks, turnstones, phalaropes, woodcock, snipe, and ruff

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Currently there are 23 ongoing ACF projects involving experimentation with mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, ducks, sandpipers, and zebra finches.
    • This stretch of the river is usually good for sandpipers and orioles, yet all we could come up with was a lone Least Sandpiper.
    • You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south.
    • The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers.
    • This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper.
    • A cormorant flew low over the water, long neck held in a serpentine curve; sandpipers and turnstones tottered among the rocks.
    • Here breeding grounds are shared with broad-billed sandpipers and sometimes red-necked phalaropes.
    • When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding on Monomoy.
    • A brief summary of the meeting's minutes are as follows: we're fairly confident that we've seen willets in the past and there's no way Sara is going to drive out to Jamaica Bay just to solidify a sandpiper sighting.
    • On a hot May morning, I plodded along the forest track, waving at mosquitoes and hoping that the neurotic wood sandpipers would calm down.
    • This can be difficult to see and is not diagnostic, as other sandpipers also have these webbed feet.
    • More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
    • It has a round head with large, black eyes, and a relatively short bill for a sandpiper.
    • There are birds in the garden that are rarely seen in London, such as the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat, with smew and goosander on the lake in winter.
    • Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view.
    • Herons, Egyptian geese, stilts and sandpipers are already frequent visitors to the site.
    • The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
    • Traditionally, the five species of peeps in North America are the Baird's, Least, Semipalmated, Western, and White-rumped sandpipers.
    • Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
    • These include the spoon-billed sandpiper which breeds in northeast Russia.
 
 
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