sandpiper
Long-billed wader
Sandpipers are small to medium-sized shorebirds with long bills and legs, typically seen probing sand and mud for invertebrates along beaches, mudflats, and wetlands.
The name covers dozens of species in the family Scolopacidae, many of which migrate vast distances.
Their quick, teetering movements along the water's edge make them easy to spot: A sandpiper darted across the wet sand.
Compact coastal wading bird
- dunlinSmall coastal sandpiper
- curlewShorebird with downcurved bill
- snipeHidden-position shooting
- godwitLarge wading bird, genus Limosa
yellowlegs · turnstone · sanderling · knot · whimbrel · stint · ruff · killdeer
Coastal areas exposed at low tide
- wetlandsWater-saturated terrain
- estuariesRiver-sea meeting points
- marshesWaterlogged land with grasses
- tidalOf sea rhythms
intertidal · shoreline · beach · sandbar · lagoon · saltmarsh · mangrove · littoral
Established bird migration path
- stopoverBrief halt mid-journey
- winteringPassing the cold season
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
flock · long-distance · navigation · instinct · journey · northward · southward · Arctic
Thoroughly investigating something
- billAmount owed, written
- invertebratesAnimals without vertebral columns
- wormsLimbless burrowing invertebrates
- crustaceansExoskeleton-bearing aquatic arthropods
mollusks · insects · larvae · pecking · feeding · sandhopper · amphipod · bivalve
plover
Compact coastal wading bird
godwit · yellowlegs · turnstone · sanderling · knot · whimbrel · stint · ruff · killdeer · willet
mudflats
Coastal areas exposed at low tide
- wetlandsWater-saturated terrain
- estuariesRiver-sea meeting points
- marshesWaterlogged land with grasses
tidal · intertidal · shoreline · beach · sandbar · lagoon · saltmarsh · mangrove · littoral · foreshore
flyway
Established bird migration path
- stopoverBrief halt mid-journey
- winteringPassing the cold season
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
seasonal · flock · long-distance · navigation · instinct · journey · northward · southward · Arctic · tundra
probing
Thoroughly investigating something
- billAmount owed, written
- invertebratesAnimals without vertebral columns
- wormsLimbless burrowing invertebrates
crustaceans · mollusks · insects · larvae · pecking · feeding · sandhopper · amphipod · bivalve · snail
- shorebirdsplover, plovers, curlew, curlews, snipe
- birdsrobin, crow, eagle, owl, duck
- coastal wildlifepelican, grey seal, seagull, gull, dolphin
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- migratory animalsCanada goose, geese, snow goose, ducks, sandhill crane
- migratory birdsarctic tern, Canada goose, barn swallow, snow goose, sandhill crane