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- noun Plural form of
sanderling .
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Examples
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There was a small flock of sanderlings (Calidris alba), along with the usual cormorants.
"Close your eyes, clear your heart, and cut the cord." greygirlbeast 2009
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Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.
grackles, and ants, and stripers, and shorebirds, oh my! 2009
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That was about it except for some very distant sanderlings and cormorants.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover.
fall 2009
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That was about it except for some very distant sanderlings and cormorants.
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There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Maybe if I had the special fog-penetrating binoculars :- All the usual gull suspects put in appearances, as did sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, more willets, and tons and tons of cormorants.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Two sanderlings weaving in and out among them look ridiculously small and hyper compared to the black-bellieds.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Maybe if I had the special fog-penetrating binoculars :- All the usual gull suspects put in appearances, as did sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, more willets, and tons and tons of cormorants.
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