sanderling

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

territ de tres dits

Sinònims

Crocethia alba

common sandpiper

red-necked stint

sharp-tailed sandpiper

grey-tailed tattler

wandering tattler

Swinhoe’s snipe

black-fronted plover

red-kneed dotterel

Traduccions

bécasseau sanderling

correlimos tridáctilo

Calidris alba

piovanello tridattilo

Crocethia alba

Elseyornis melanops

Charadrius ruficapillus

Erythrogonys cinctus

Calidris canutus

Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

First recorded 1600s. Possibly a descendant from Old English *sandyrðling, from sand (“sand”) + yrðling (“plowman”), though not attested in Old or Middle English.

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