sandpiper

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The state’s shores offer temperate-weather hiking with views of dramatic cliffs, crashing waves, pelagic birds such as the blue-footed booby and several species of sandpiper, and native wildflowers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Jolie is the 14,000th addition to the ark; the 13,000th milestone species, announced in July 2022, was the spoon-billed sandpiper.

From National Geographic • May 19, 2023

Birders flocked to the 520 floating bridge this week after learning that a sharp-tailed sandpiper had been spotted nearby.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022

The former Times critic Parul Sehgal noted that Watson covers vast terrain while “skittering back and forth like a sandpiper at the shores of language’s Great Debates.”

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

Sometimes Kapugen would whistle sandpiper songs and the birds would dip down to see which of their members had gotten lost in the grass.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George