wanderings
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The first aviary focuses on shorebirds — plovers, sandpipers, sanderlings — that come to the Delaware Bay around Cape May, N.J., to munch on horseshoe crab eggs.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023
Shorebirds such as sanderlings and plovers are down by about one-third, the team says.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 19, 2019
"Piper" director Alan Barillaro says the birds in his short film are mostly sanderlings, a species of small sandpipers he encountered in the Bay Area.
From The Verge • Jun. 26, 2016
Like most sandpipers, sanderlings have a massive migration range, sometimes thousands of miles, depending on where they choose to settle outside of breeding season.
From The Verge • Jun. 26, 2016
She was watching them, growing listless from hunger, when a wheeling flock of sanderlings and whimbrels from the continent flew past.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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