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What is a sanderling?

What is a sanderling? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small wading bird, Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world. A type of stint.
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The note of the sanderling is a soft ket, ket, ket, uttered singly or in series somewhat querulous in tone.
There can be little doubt that the sanderling migrates by night.
In its winter plumage, in which we usually see it, it is likely to be confused with the northern phalarope or the sanderling.
And a bird identified earlier in the photo caption as a sanderling is actually a sandpiper.
Birds such as the sanderling, white-fronted plover and many others are dependent on these creatures as well as being themselves dependent on the biome.
The sanderling is a rather silent bird at all times and seems to have a comparatively limited vocabulary.

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