solitary sandpiper

noun

1. a North American sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, of inland wetlands, having a brownish-gray, white-spotted back and whitish underparts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of solitary sandpiper¹

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

Example Sentences

A scan of the mud puddle near the fairgrounds fails to turn up the expected Solitary Sandpiper.

From Scientific American

I was once pleased and much amused to discover in a small sequestered pool in a wood, well sheltered from sight by trees and aquatic plants, a Solitary Sandpiper living in company with a Blue Bittern.

From Project Gutenberg

The well-known and well-named Solitary Sandpiper arrives later than the other birds of its family in La Plata, and differs greatly from them in its habits, avoiding the wet plains and muddy margins of lagoons and marshes where they mostly congregate, and making its home at the side of a small pool well sheltered by its banks, or by trees and herbage, and with a clear margin on which it can run freely.

From Project Gutenberg

Rhyacoph′ilus, a genus of Scolopacid�—the green or solitary sandpiper.

From Project Gutenberg

I saw blackbirds at this place, and sparrows, and the solitary sandpiper, and the Canada woodpecker, and a large number of humming-birds.

From Project Gutenberg