Usually means: Small, energetic bird; coastal habitats.
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  1. sanderling: Merriam-Webster
  2. sanderling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sanderling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sanderling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sanderling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sanderling, sanderling: Wordnik
  7. sanderling: Wiktionary
  8. sanderling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sanderling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sanderling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sanderling: Dictionary.com
  12. sanderling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sanderling (disambiguation), Sanderling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sanderling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sanderling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sanderling: Rhymezone
  17. Sanderling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sanderling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sanderling: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sanderling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sanderling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Similar:
crocethia alba, oxbird, pectoral sandpiper, least sandpiper, sandbird, stint, purple sandpiper, upland sandpiper, sandplover, western sandpiper, more...

Opposite:
land animal, predator, non-migratory bird.
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Similar:
crocethia alba, oxbird, pectoral sandpiper, least sandpiper, sandbird, stint, purple sandpiper, upland sandpiper, sandplover, western sandpiper, more...

Opposite:
land animal, predator, non-migratory bird.



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