bartramian sandpiper

plural bartramian sandpipers

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bartramian sandpiper.

   Shortly after leaving Refugio we struck the open prairie, where we found buff-breasted and bartramian sandpipers without end.

   1894, Arthur C. Peirce, A Man from Corpus Christi: Or, The Adventures of Two Bird Hunters and a Dog in Texan Bogs, page 36

plural Bartramian sandpipers

1. archaicAn upland sandpiper of species Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.

   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

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   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