sandpiper

Example Sentences

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Juvenile salmon shelter and feed in eelgrass beds there, while migratory sandpipers frequent nearby mud flats.

From Seattle Times

The light glinted off the kelp beds, roused the shorebirds and turned the waves translucent green before they crashed and chased the sandpipers up the beach.

From Los Angeles Times

On the other hand, some of the birds in the aviary — including sandpipers, snowy plovers and oystercatchers — might need more time to adjust to visitors to their space.

From Los Angeles Times

The sandpiper and the oystercatcher joined storks and vultures on what the researchers called the "not-so-pretty birds" end of the list.

From BBC

When sandpipers run along the shores of Washington beaches in the spring, racing to suck up the brown foam pushed up the beach by the tide, it is this rich sea fare they are slurping.

From Seattle Times