Other forms: sandpipers
A sandpiper is a small wading bird that probes the mud with a fine bill. A common sandpiper, sandpipers on the shore, the sandpiper bobbed.
The bill tip is packed with sensors, so the bird finds worms by touch rather than by sight and can feed in the dark. The constant bobbing of the tail is how several species are told apart at a distance.
1nounsandpiperA small wading bird that probes the mud with a fine bill.
“A little sandpiper ran along the edge of the waves, pecking at the wet sand.”
sandpiper is a bird.
Sand plus piper, from the bird's thin piping call along the shore.
From sand + piper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA