buff-breasted

• One species, the buff-breasted sandpiper, is especially dependent on the eastern Rainwater Basin, with virtually all the world's "buffies," estimated at 20,000 to 30,000, stopping over to feed in the region's agricultural fields each spring. —  Grand Island Independent Home RSS
• Retiring as executive director of the bird index in 1981, he had the satisfaction of seeing it absorbed into the Australian Museum 13 years later, though a clear picture of the buff-breasted button quail has still to be obtained. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

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