Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small shorebird (Calidris alba) found on sandy beaches almost worldwide, having predominantly gray and white plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The three-toed sandpiper, or so-called ruddy plover, Calidris arenaria or Arenaria calidris, a small wading bird of the family Scolopacidæ, subfamily Scolopacinæ, and section Tringeæ, found on sandy beaches of all parts of the world.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (
Calidris arenaria ) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called alsocurwillet ,sand lark ,stint , andruddy plover .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
wading bird , Calidris alba, that breeds in theArctic and winters on sandy shores andestuaries around the world. A type ofstint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The name sanderling comes from the Icelandic, "sanderla," which alludes to the birds' sandy habitat according to the Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
Archive 2007-10-01 Scott Schmidt 2007
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The name sanderling comes from the Icelandic, "sanderla," which alludes to the birds' sandy habitat according to the Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro Scott Schmidt 2007
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When the tide is out a huge expanse of mud is left exposed on this flat landscape, giving the perfect opportunity for wading birds such as sanderling to feast themselves on the variety of marine invertebrates that call this mud home.
BBC Blog Network 2009
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Then, just metres away, lands one of the most entertaining of wading birds, the starling-sized sanderling.
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A flock of winter-pale sanderling are feeding along the sea's ever changing margin.
Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010
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However, the sanderling, similar to many other high-arctic breeders, might be affected even more strongly, as southern tundra habitat types are projected to replace their specific high-arctic habitats.
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009
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There are a few terrestrial animals restricted to the high Arctic such as the sanderling (Calidris alba) and a common Collembola, Vertagopus brevicaudus.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Vegetation scenarios derived from the HadCM2GSa1 model project that 76% of tundra bean goose (Anser fabalis rossicus/serrirostris) habitat will be affected by the alteration of tundra vegetation, while only 5% of sanderling habitat will be affected [28].
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009
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Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew.
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2007
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My first plover warden shift of the season and a flock of them and two sanderling friends shows up fresh from migration.
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