red

en-noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

sekobarbitaali

slang: secobarbital — see also secobarbital

(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade


rode

en-verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

rodes (present singular third-person)
roding (participle present)
roded (participle past)
roded (past)

"When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:

(ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.


shake

en-noun

shake (countable and uncountable, plural shakes)

From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”).
Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Old Norse skaka (“to shaka”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.

cog

Most of the fission energy was released in the last few generations, so if the device blew itself apart before about fifty-seven shakes had elapsed, […]

2003, Ruth H. Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg, Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (page 97)

(historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.


knot

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.

In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


knot

Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.

My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

Calidris canutus
Calidris canutus#Translingual

One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).


fiddler

From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddle + -er.
(capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.

A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.


curlew

From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).

Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.


godwit

Origin unknown. A surface analysis would suggest Old English *gōdwiht as the term's ultimate origin, corresponding to good + wight (“creature”), but the term is attested only since late Middle English. The Oxford English Dictionary considers the term to probably have originally been imitative of the bird's call.

unk

Origin unknown

onom

imitative

Any of four species of long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae.


pewee

en-noun

pewee (countable and uncountable, plural pewees)

(countable) The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).


oxeye

From ox + eye. Apparently in some senses, specifically Buphthalmum, translated from Arabic عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʕayn al-baqar, literally “ox-eye”), as also the case for French œil-de-bœuf.

calque

عَيْن الْبَقَر

A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) or the blue titmouse (Parus caeruleus).


reeve

From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also groefa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf.
The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.

inh

A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.

1936, The Periodical, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, page 67:

(military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.


snipe

Either from sneap or a figurative development from Etymology 1.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-snipe.wav


ruff

In the same genus there is another species which makes better eating. This is A[rripis] georgianus, popularly known as the ruff or tommy ruff (again, nothing to do with anything bearing that name in the Old World), but now officially called 'Australian herring' (another aberration). [...] The ruff, on the other hand, although a smaller fish, makes good eating; its flesh is tender and tasty.

2014, Alan Davidson, “Australasian ‘salmon’”, in Tom Jaine, editor, The Oxford Companion to Food, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44:

A fish of species Arripis georgianus, found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia


telltale

From tell + tale, perhaps dissimilated from earlier taleteller, from Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”).

der

"Metamorphoses . . ." is the title of a book of telltales (or serialised fables) written by Lucius Apulei¡us, a neo-platonist priest in the second century A.D.

2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Origins of Life, page 130:

This telltale is not like the story that you put in the hands of your children, or those narrated by mothers in their children's bedrooms in Western Europe before sleep. This is a telltale that is not welcome but is forbidden to be distributed.

2018, Dawood Kaloti, The Telltale Leaflet: From Palestine to Stockholm:

A story or fable that has a moral or message.


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.

the shank of the morning

AMANDA: Going now? You're joking! Why, it's only the shank of the evening, Mr. O’Connor!

1945, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, page 92:

The main part or beginning of a period of time.


quaily

Bartramia longicauda
Bartramia longicauda#Translingual

(obsolete) The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), a game bird.


whimbrel

Uncertain. Perhaps from whimper + -el, alluding to the sound of its cry.

Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552

Numenius phaeopus
Numenius phaeopus#Translingual

A large migratory wading bird, Numenius phaeopus, of the family Scolopacidae, with a long downcurved bill.


dunlin

Calidris alpina
Calidris alpina#Translingual

A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.


sanderling

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

Calidris alba
Calidris alba#Translingual

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


stint

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

inh

He had a stint in jail.

That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.

2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:

Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.

2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

(pracovní) pobyt

a period of time spent doing or being something


greenshank

Tringa nebularia
Tringa nebularia#Translingual

A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.


redshank

Persicaria maculosa
Persicaria maculosa#Translingual

Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.


sandpiper

Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs (setting up the sandpipers[.]

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.


woodcock

From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood + cock.

the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock

"[A]h, that was the woodcock and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him[.]"

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.


pintail

Gallinago stenura
Gallinago stenura#Translingual


turnstone

Arenaria interpres
Arenaria interpres#Translingual

Arenaria melanocephala
Arenaria melanocephala#Translingual

Either of two species of coastal wading bird, Arenaria interpres and Arenaria melanocephala, that breed in the Arctic and readily turn stones or seaweed looking for hidden invertebrates.


phalarope

From New Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Ancient Greek φαλαρίς (phalarís, “coot”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

com

Any of three small wading birds in the genus Phalaropus, of the family Scolopacidae, that have lobed toes.


faeder

Learned borrowing from Old English fæder (“father”). Doublet of ayr, father, padre, pater, and père.

doublet

Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’. Faeders are slightly larger than females and in late April have testes 2.5 time the size of testes of normal males.

2006 June 22, Joop Jukema, “Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird”, in Biology Letters:

Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.

2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae), page 49:

It has recently been discovered that a third mating strategy exists for males - the 'faeder' or 'sneaker', which number only about 1% of the Ruff population.

2009, Richard J. Chandler, Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide:

These “faeder” males, as they are called, were found to have testes 2.5 times larger than those of normal males during the peak breeding time of late April and are delightfully termed “sneakers.”

2016, Clifford B. Frith, Charles Darwin's Life With Birds: His Complete Ornithology:

Philomachus pugnax
Philomachus pugnax#Translingual

(ornithology) A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.


redback

Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)


dowitcher

From an Iroquoian language; compare Oneida tawístawe (“snipe”).

Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.


pickerel

From Middle English pikerel; equivalent to pike + -rel.

(Canada) Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.


tattler

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tattler.wav

A few truck drivers griped drowsily about the tattlers in their cabs which graphed the mileage per hour per day.

Electronic monitors (black box, tattlers) help to define the actions of the driver during normal and emergent operation of the EMS unit.

2002, National Association of EMS Physicians, Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, page 270:

A device fitted to a vehicle to measure mileage etc.


scape

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).


scape

though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.


whap

Numenius arquata
Numenius arquata#Translingual

(Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.


bar-tailed godwit

en-noun

bar-tailed godwit (plural bar-tailed godwits)

Limosa lapponica
Limosa lapponica#Translingual

A wader, of species Limosa lapponica, a type of godwit, of the Scolopacidae family


black-tailed godwit

black-tailed godwit (plural black-tailed godwits)

Limosa limosa
Limosa limosa#Translingual

A wader, Limosa limosa, a type of godwit, of the Scolopacidae family


common snipe

common snipe (plural common snipes or common snipe)

common snipes (plural)
common snipe (plural)

Gallinago gallinago
Gallinago gallinago#Translingual

A bird of the species Gallinago gallinago.


yarwhelp

Perhaps related to Old English hwilpa, Scots whaup and Dutch wulp (“curlew”).

(England, archaic) godwit, a type of bird.


greater yellowlegs

greater yellowlegs (plural greater yellowlegs)

Tringa melanoleuca
Tringa melanoleuca#Translingual

A shorebird of North America characterized by its yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca.


lesser yellowlegs

lesser yellowlegs (plural lesser yellowlegs)

Tringa flavipes
Tringa flavipes#Translingual

A shorebird of North America characterized by its yellow legs (Tringa flavipes).


red knot

red knot (countable and uncountable, plural red knots)

Calidris canutus
Calidris canutus#Translingual

Calidris canutus, a species of wading bird.


spotshank

(UK, birdwatching, informal) The spotted redshank.


blackwit

(Yorkshire, birdwatching) the black-tailed godwit.


whaup

It looks eerie at bright midday, when the sun is shining and whaups are crying among the seaweeds; but think what it was on that awesome night, with the Powers of Darkness brooding over it like a cloud!

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

A whaup flapped up with its liquid, rising cry and he found himself wheeling round in in a dizziness of blue as he tried to follow its flight.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 368:

(Scotland) The curlew, Numenius arquata.


purple sandpiper

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…

2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:

Calidris maritima
Calidris maritima#Translingual


spotted redshank

spotted redshank (plural spotted redshanks)

Tringa erythropus
Tringa erythropus#Translingual


curlew sandpiper

curlew sandpiper (plural curlew sandpipers)

Calidris ferruginea
Calidris ferruginea#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris ferruginea)


jacksnipe

jacksnipe (plural jacksnipes or jacksnipe)

Lymnocryptes minimus
Lymnocryptes minimus#Translingual

Any of species Lymnocryptes minimus of migratory small stocky waders, the smallest of the snipes.


yelper

From Middle English yelpere; equivalent to yelp + -er.

Mr. Longstreth, who can be a bit of a yelper, sang sweetly, perhaps in search of contrast.

2009 July 21, Nate Chinen, “Vocals That Deliver a Jolt, as ‘Ooh’ Morphs Into ‘Eh’”, in New York Times:


wood sandpiper

Tringa glareola
Tringa glareola#Translingual

A Eurasian species of small wader birds, Tringa glareola, that is the smallest of the shanks.


timberdoodle

Scolopax minor
Scolopax minor#Translingual


American woodcock

American woodcock (plural American woodcocks)

A North American shorebird, Scolopax minor


scolopacid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Scolopacidae of waders or shorebirds.


mowyer

Numenius americanus
Numenius americanus#Translingual

(zoology) The long-billed or sickle-billed curlew (Numenius americanus).


willet

Onomatopoeic, from the bird's cry ("pill-will-willet").

Tringa semipalmata
Tringa semipalmata#Translingual

Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.


whiterump

(archaic) A bird, the black-tailed godwit.


whaap

(Scotland, obsolete) The European curlew; called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.

(Scotland, obsolete) The whimbrel; called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.


lobefoot

(archaic) A bird with lobate toes, especially the phalarope.


bogsucker

From bog + sucker, from its habit of feeding among bogs.


yarwhip

(obsolete) The bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica


doughbird

From dough + bird, from its soft, pale breast meat.

Numenius borealis
Numenius borealis#Translingual


sea lark

Anthus petrosus
Anthus petrosus#Translingual


titterel

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the whimbrel.


longbeak

Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnodromus scolopaceus#Translingual

The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus).


shadbird

From shad + bird, since it appears at the same time as the shad (a fish).

Gallinago delicata
Gallinago delicata#Translingual

(dated, UK, dialect) The American snipe; Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata).


brownback

In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds.

1897, Forest and Stream - Volume 48, page 142:

Two "brownbacks," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure 36. The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink.

1974, George Ross Starr, Decoys of the Atlantic flyway, page 88:

A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

The color work on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work. Brown was used on the “brownbacks,” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds.

1893, The Philatelic Journal of America:

Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps.

1894, St. Nicholas - Volume 21, page 221:

A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing.

1889, John Albert Sleicher, Leslie's - Volumes 67-69, page 335:

These notes were printed on paper the reverse of which was of a brown color, and very soon after their appearance they were nicknamed the brownbacks, and continued to bear this name during the whole time they were in circulation.

1896, The American Stationer - Volume 40, page 357:

A notable instance of this character was the issue by the city in 1873 of the "Brownbacks,” so called, as circulating notes, which were not regarded as a violation of this provision of the charter, and which were retired by the proceeds of a special tax levied and collected for that purpose after the present charter came in force.

1900, St. Louis Public Library Magazine Vol. V, page 11:

The brownbacks come into circulation by creating a debt and involving double interest.

1900, The Medical World - Volume 18, page 282:

In the emergency of a shortage of cash the city resorted to a temporary issue of scrip called "brownbacks."

1911, Walter Barlow Stevens, St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764-1911 - Volume 1, page 249:

In order to prevent consumers from supplementing their current cash allowance out of cash hoards, it would be necessary either to stamp all dollar bills when the scheme is put into operation or to change them completely; e.g., by printing "brownbacks" instead of "greenbacks."

1942, Review of economic statistics - Volume 24, page 123:

At least two banknotes of the First national Bank of Albion are known to exist today. Both are $10 brownbacks.

1985, Frank Passic, Albion's Banks and Bankers, page 41:

Come tomorrow morning you say we are going to have pinkbacks or brownbacks and make everybody turn their currency in to the Federal Government.

1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Crime, Violence, and Drug Abuse in South Florida:

As is known, there are two opinions among financial experts and economists:.one holds that without administrative interference in the regulations governing hard currency circulation, which by itself is harmful for the social economy, one cannot achieve financial stabilization; the other, on the opposite, is against any administrative restrictions, and advocates a natural stabilization of the money supply, as a result of which all "greenbacks," "graybacks," and "brownbacks" will disappear from circulation on their own.

1993, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia - Issues 134-139, page 35:

Among the large collection of historic criminal daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes on display was that of Louis Degurie, who was one of the first to use photography to make counterfeit "brownbacks," in 1862.

A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.


surfbird

Aphriza virgata
Aphriza virgata#Translingual

A small sandpiper, Aphriza virgata, endemic to the northwestern parts of North America.


oxbird

An African weaverbird (Bubalornis albirostris).


weet-weet

So called from its piping cry when disturbed.

(UK, dialect) The common European sandpiper.


papabote

From Cajun French papabote, pape-a-bote. See Old French bote (“high shoe, boot”).

(Louisiana, dated) A bird, the upland sandpiper.


redleg

A plant in the buckwheat family, lady's thumb.


shore snipe

A sandpiper, a bird in the Scolopacidae family.


spikebill

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).


teeter-tail

Actitis macularius
Actitis macularius#Translingual

A bird, the spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius.


phalaropodid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Phalaropodidae , now considered to be part of the Scolopacidae; a phalarope.


sea mouse

Perhaps because it resembles a bedraggled mouse when washed up on shore.

A marine polychaete worm (genus Aphrodita) with the body covered in a dense mat of setae.


tringa

(zoology) Any of the genus Tringa of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers.


pectoral sandpiper

pectoral sandpiper (plural pectoral sandpipers)

Calidris melanotos
Calidris melanotos#Translingual

Calidris melanotos, a small migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania, and eats small invertebrates.


Terek sandpiper

Terek sandpiper (plural Terek sandpipers)

First observed near the Terek River, which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea.

Xenus cinereus
Xenus cinereus#Translingual

Xenus cinereus, a small migratory Palearctic wader.


pin-tailed snipe

pin-tailed snipe (plural pin-tailed snipes)

Gallinago stenura
Gallinago stenura#Translingual

A bird of the species Gallinago stenura, native to Russia and southern Asia.


upland sandpiper

upland sandpiper (plural upland sandpipers)

Bartramia longicauda
Bartramia longicauda#Translingual

A small wader, Bartramia longicauda, breeding in North America and wintering in South America.


yellowleg

Either of two species of shorebirds, of the genus Tringa, that have yellow legs


Gabriel's hounds

(UK, dialect, obsolete) curlews or nightjars, whose cries are associated with various superstitions


Hudsonian godwit

Hudsonian godwit (plural Hudsonian godwits)

Limosa haemastica
Limosa haemastica#Translingual

An American wader, Limosa haemastica, gathering on the shores of Hudson Bay to migrate to South America each autumn.


ruddy turnstone

ruddy turnstone (plural ruddy turnstones)

Arenaria interpres
Arenaria interpres#Translingual

A stout short-billed wading bird in the wader family of Scolopacidae; Arenaria interpres.


upland plover

(dated) The upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.


Bartram's sandpiper

Bartram's sandpiper (plural Bartram's sandpipers)

Named for American naturalist William Bartram. See also sandpiper.

Eight examples of Bartram's Sandpiper have been obtained in Britain. The species inhabits temperate North America.

1896, Henry Seebohm, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, page 134:

Guess what? Upland sandpipers are also sometimes called upland plovers or Bartram's sandpipers.

2010, Mary Elizabeth Salzmann, Albatross to Zebra Finch: Birds from A to Z, page 24:

(archaic) The upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.


Bartramian sandpiper

Bartramian sandpiper (plural Bartramian sandpipers)

Named for American naturalist William Bartram, with suffix -ian. See also sandpiper.

I first saw willets and bartramian sandpipers—called plover—the 13th. I saw a good many mallards, some widgeon and bluewing teal, four ruddy ducks (the only ones seen during the year), hooded mergansers, two sandhill cranes, and flocks of geese that looked very large to me, and they were when compared with what I had seen in old Connecticut.

1891, Elmer T. Judd, “Dakota game birds”, in Forest and Stream, page 169:

But still on the pastures and prairies of the Illinois country are born, each year, a new generation of Bartramian sandpipers, shore larks, yellow-winged sparrows and grass finches—the names by which we knew them in a day long gone.

2008, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN, page 654:

(archaic) An upland sandpiper of species Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.


Wilson's phalarope

Wilson's phalarope (plural Wilson's phalaropes)

Named after Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

Phalaropus tricolor
Phalaropus tricolor#Translingual

Phalaropus tricolor, a small wading bird.


robin snipe

A bird, the red-breasted snipe or dowitcher.


rock plover

Calidris maritima
Calidris maritima#Translingual

Calidris maritima (syn. Erolia maritima, purple sandpiper).


broad-billed sandpiper

broad-billed sandpiper (plural broad-billed sandpipers)

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris falcinellus)

মোটাঠুঁটো বাটান

mōṭaṭhũṭō baṭan


Temminck's stint

Temminck's stint (plural Temminck's stints)

Calidris temminckii
Calidris temminckii#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris temminckii)


red-necked stint

red-necked stint (plural red-necked stints)

Calidris ruficollis
Calidris ruficollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris ruficollis)


Baird's sandpiper

Baird's sandpiper (plural Baird's sandpipers)

Calidris bairdii
Calidris bairdii#Translingual


long-toed stint

long-toed stint (plural long-toed stints)

Calidris subminuta
Calidris subminuta#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris subminuta)


stilt sandpiper

stilt sandpiper (plural stilt sandpipers)

Calidris himantopus
Calidris himantopus#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris himantopus)


sharp-tailed sandpiper

sharp-tailed sandpiper (plural sharp-tailed sandpipers)

Calidris acuminata
Calidris acuminata#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris acuminata)


western sandpiper

western sandpiper (plural western sandpipers)

Calidris mauri
Calidris mauri#Translingual


buff-breasted sandpiper

buff-breasted stint (plural buff-breasted sandpipers)

buff-breasted stint (canonical)
buff-breasted sandpipers (plural)

Calidris subruficollis
Calidris subruficollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris subruficollis)


white-rumped sandpiper

white-rumped sandpiper (plural white-rumped sandpipers)

Calidris fuscicollis
Calidris fuscicollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis).


semipalmated sandpiper

semipalmated sandpiper (plural semipalmated sandpipers)

Calidris pusilla
Calidris pusilla#Translingual


short-billed dowitcher

short-billed dowitcher (plural short-billed dowitchers)

Limnodromus griseus
Limnodromus griseus#Translingual

a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, Limnodromus griseus

korotkokljuvyj amerikanskij bekasovidnyj veretennik

короткоклювый американский бекасовидный веретенник


red-necked phalarope

red-necked phalarope (plural red-necked phalaropes)

Phalaropus lobatus
Phalaropus lobatus#Translingual

a type of small wader, (Phalaropus lobatus)


little stint

Calidris minuta
Calidris minuta#Translingual


great snipe

Gallinago media
Gallinago media#Translingual

A medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media).


long-billed dowitcher

long-billed dowitcher (plural long-billed dowitchers)

Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnodromus scolopaceus#Translingual

a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, Limnodromus scolopaceus


Eurasian woodcock

Eurasian woodcock (plural Eurasian woodcocks)

Scolopax rusticola
Scolopax rusticola#Translingual

A medium-small wading bird, (Scolopax rusticola)


red phalarope

Phalaropus fulicarius
Phalaropus fulicarius#Translingual

Phalaropus fulicarius, a small wading bird.


spotted sandpiper

spotted sandpiper (plural spotted sandpipers)

Actitis macularius
Actitis macularius#Translingual

Actitis macularius, a small wading bird.


solitary sandpiper

solitary sandpiper (plural solitary sandpipers)

Tringa solitaria
Tringa solitaria#Translingual


green sandpiper

green sandpiper (plural green sandpipers)

Tringa ochropus
Tringa ochropus#Translingual


common sandpiper

common sandpiper (plural common sandpipers)

Actitis hypoleucos
Actitis hypoleucos#Translingual

A small species of wading bird, Actitis hypoleucos, widely distributed across Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.


grey-tailed tattler

grey-tailed tattler (plural grey-tailed tattlers)

Tringa brevipes
Tringa brevipes#Translingual

A species of shorebird, Tringa brevipes, of east Asia, Australasia, and Beringia.


common greenshank

common greenshank (plural common greenshanks)

Tringa nebularia
Tringa nebularia#Translingual


marsh sandpiper

marsh sandpiper (plural marsh sandpipers)

Tringa stagnatilis
Tringa stagnatilis#Translingual


common redshank

common redshank (plural common redshanks)

Tringa totanus
Tringa totanus#Translingual


stone-snipe

Tringa melanoleuca
Tringa melanoleuca#Translingual

A common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).


sea quail

sea quail (plural sea quails or sea quail)


creeker

From creek + -er, denoting someone who lives in such a rural place that he has no hometown or settlement but a nearby creek.

Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take to the mountains, and died, like their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came.

1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 12:

Wick, a creek or bay - Ipswich, Greenwich, Berwick. (Viking = a creeker.)

1882, anonymous author, Outline of the history of the English language and literature, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers:


great knot

great knot (countable and uncountable, plural great knots)

Calidris tenuirostris
Calidris tenuirostris#Translingual

Calidris tenuirostris, a species of wading bird.


Wilson's snipe

Commemorating the American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

Gallinago delicata
Gallinago delicata#Translingual

Gallinago delicata, a small, stocky shorebird.


slender-billed curlew

slender-billed curlew (plural slender-billed curlews)

Numenius tenuirostris
Numenius tenuirostris#Translingual

A bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct.


least sandpiper

least sandpiper (plural least sandpipers)

Calidris minutilla
Calidris minutilla#Translingual


black turnstone

black turnstone (plural black turnstones)

Arenaria melanocephala
Arenaria melanocephala#Translingual

Any of species Arenaria melanocephala of birds of the Pacific coast of North America.