noun. Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.

noun. A small wading bird that runs along the sand and utters a piping note; a sand-lark, sand-plover, or sand-snipe.

noun. A fish, the pride.

noun. Of Pennant, the green sandpiper: called Tringa littorea by Linnæus, and Mr. Oldham's white heron by Albin.

noun. Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.

noun. A small lamprey eel; the pride.

noun. See under Curlew.

noun. See under Stilt.

noun. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

noun. any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

"While I'm on the topic of recycling, I should mention, too, that the "sandpiper" product line introduced a year or so ago by our St. Catharines Ontario mill was the industry's first 100-per-cent post-consumer, non-de-inked writing paper."

aberdeen sandpiper  aleutian sandpiper  armed sandpiper  ash-colored sandpiper  baird's sandpiper  

Actitis hypoleucos  Actitis macularius  Aechmorhynchus parvirostris  Baird's Sandpiper  Bartramia longicauda  

limicoline bird  shore bird  shorebird  

actitis hypoleucos  actitis macularia  bartramia longicauda  bartramian sandpiper  calidris canutus  

bittern  bustard  dotterel  godwit  killdeer