Meaning of bartramian sandpiper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An upland sandpiper of species Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.
   archaic
2. Alternative letter-case form of Bartramian sandpiper.
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Examples

“I first saw willets and bartramian sandpipers—called plover—the 13th. I saw a good many mallards, some widgeon and bluewing teal, four ruddy ducks (the only ones seen during the year), hooded mergansers, two sandhill cranes, and flocks of geese that looked very large to me, and they were when compared with what I had seen in old Connecticut.”

“But still on the pastures and prairies of the Illinois country are born, each year, a new generation of Bartramian sandpipers, shore larks, yellow-winged sparrows and grass finches—the names by which we knew them in a day long gone.”

“Shortly after leaving Refugio we struck the open prairie, where we found buff-breasted and bartramian sandpipers without end.”

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