upland sandpiper

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large brownish sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) that breeds in fields and prairies of northern and central North America and winters in South America.

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• noun large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands