different between killdeer vs sandpiper

English

Alternative forms

• killdee
• kill-deer

Etymology

Imitative of the bird's call.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ld??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ld??/

Noun

killdeer (plural killdeers or killdeer)

1. A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 50:

     A kill-deer, flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.

Translations

Anagrams

• rekilled

English

Etymology

sand +? piper

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sænd.pa?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sænd.pa?p?/

Noun

sandpiper (plural sandpipers)

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

Derived terms

• Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
• broad-billed sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus
• buff-breasted sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis
• common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos
• curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea
• green sandpiper, Tringa ochropus
• least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
• marsh sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis
• pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
• purple sandpiper, Calidris maritima
• rock sandpiper, Calidris ptilocnemis
• semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
• sharp-tailed sandpiper, Calidris acuminata
• solitary sandpiper, Tringa solitaria
• spoon-billed sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
• spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularia
• stilt sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
• Tahiti sandpiper, Prosobonia leucoptera
• Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus
• Tuamotu sandpiper, Aechmorhynchus parvirostris
• upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda
• western sandpiper, Calidris mauri
• white-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
• wood sandpiper, Tringa glareola

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