sanderling

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small shorebird (Calidris alba) found on sandy beaches almost worldwide, having predominantly gray and white plumage.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The three-toed sandpiper, or so-called ruddy plover, Calidris arenaria or Arenaria calidris, a small wading bird of the family Scolopacidæ, subfamily Scolopacinæ, and section Tringeæ, found on sandy beaches of all parts of the world.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A small wading bird, Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world. A type of stint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world