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either of two snipelike shore birds, Limnodromus griseus or L. scolopaceus, of arctic and subarctic North America: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes 长嘴半蹼鹬
Butas the afternoon wears on and the water retreats, acrowd oflittle birds arrives to feast inthe shallows: short-billed dowitchers, Westernsandpipers, a black-belliedplover.