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☆ upland sandpiper

a large, short-billed sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) found in the fields and uplands of the interior of North and South America
formerly called upland plover

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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