RED-BACKED SANDPIPER

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Meaning:

Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

Synonyms:

dunlin; Erolia alpina; red-backed sandpiper

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("red-backed sandpiper" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("red-backed sandpiper" is a member of...):

Erolia; genus Erolia (a genus of Scolopacidae)

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