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Significados de upland sandpiper en inglés

Large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands.

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        Examples for "upland plover"
        Examples for "upland plover"
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        They are eaten by the Wilson phalarope, avocet, black-necked stilt, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        Wood duck, upland plover, least tern, Wilson tern, roseate tern, black skimmer, oystercatcher, and numerous other littoral species.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        Wood-duck, knot, greater yellow-legs, upland plover, golden plover, piping plover, great horned owl.-(Harry S. Hathaway, South Auburn.)
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        Two species of shorebirds, the killdeer and upland plover, still further befriend cattle by devouring the North American fever tick.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        Wood-duck and upland plover.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        The Bartramian Sandpiper even now is a great factor each summer in checking the increasing locusts on our prairies.
        A Book of Natural History / Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.