Bartram's sandpiper

English

Etymology

Named for American naturalist William Bartram. See also sandpiper.

Noun

Bartram's sandpiper (plural Bartram's sandpipers)

  1. (archaic) The upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.
    • 1896, Henry Seebohm and Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds‎, page 134:
      Eight examples of Bartram's Sandpiper have been obtained in Britain. The species inhabits temperate North America.
    • 2010, Mary Elizabeth Salzmann, Albatross to Zebra Finch: Birds from A to Z‎, page 24:
      Guess what? Upland sandpipers are also sometimes called upland plovers or Bartram's sandpipers.

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