noun
- small shorebirds with long bills and legs that feed along beaches and mudflats
Examples
- A flock of sandpipers ran along the water’s edge, searching for food.
- The sandpipers quickly scattered when a wave crashed nearby.
- We watched the sandpipers probe the wet sand with their long beaks.
- Sandpipers are common visitors to coastal wetlands during migration.
- The children delighted in chasing the sandpipers down the beach.
- Several species of sandpipers nest in the Arctic tundra.