Bartramian sandpiper

[ bahr-trey-mee-uhn ]

noun

1. upland sandpiper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bartramian sandpiper¹

1805–15, Americanism; named after John Bartram; -ian

Example Sentences

The song of the Bartramian Sandpiper would attract the attention of the least observant and the singular aërial evolutions of the Snipe and Woodcock lend an unusual interest to the study of these birds in the spring.

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The Bartramian Sandpiper even now is a great factor each summer in checking the increasing locusts on our prairies.

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Greater yellow-leg is much scarcer than formerly, also Bartramian sandpiper.

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The Bartramian Sandpiper, commonly known as the Upland Plover, a bird which formerly bred on grassy hills all over the State and migrated southward along our coasts in great flocks, is in imminent danger of extirpation.

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