white-rumped sandpiper
noun
A small migratory sandpiper having brown and white plumage with white upper tail coverts, Calidris fuscicollis, which breeds in arctic regions of Canada and winters in South America.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian.
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