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Sandpiper vs. Killdeer

Difference Between Sandpiper and Killdeer

Sandpiper

Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe.
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Killdeer

The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the Americas. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae.
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Sandpiper

Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.
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Killdeer

A New World plover (Charadrius vociferus) that has a distinctive noisy cry and two black bands across its breast.
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Sandpiper

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.
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Killdeer

American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
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Sandpiper

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.
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Killdeer

A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
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Sandpiper

A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Sandpiper

any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
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