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Pectoral Sandpiper

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Noun

1. calidris melanotos, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper

American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pectoral Sandpiper

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a large, grayish-brown, American sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) with a streaked breast, white belly, and yellow legs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pectoral Sandpiper

see synonyms of pectoral sandpiper
n.
A migratory sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) that breeds in the Arctic, the male of which inflates a sac in the throat during courtship.

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