All sandpiper synonyms

noun sandpiper

• curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
• game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
• woodcock — either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
• quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
• wildfowl — a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.