red-backed sandpiper

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

   SynonymsdunlinErolia alpina

   Broadersandpiper

   Part ofErolia

Questions about red-backed sandpiper

What does red-backed sandpiper mean?

red-backed sandpiper means "small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions".

What is another word for red-backed sandpiper?

Close synonyms include dunlin, Erolia alpina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red-backed sandpiper a common word?

red-backed sandpiper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.