| NOUN | a buff-breasted sandpiper | buff-breasted sandpipers |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Predators of "Bombus polaris" include the Buff-breasted sandpiper ("Tryngites subruficollis"), common eider ("Somateria mollissima"), and Long-tailed duck ("Clangula hyemalis"), which will either eat the bees or feed them to their young.
- The bay is also designated as a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network Site of International Importance, as well as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, reflecting its significance as a habitat for the buff-breasted sandpiper and other threatened species.
- Hybrids between this species and the dunlin are occasionally found in northeastern North America. The white-rumped sandpiper is also suspected to hybridize with the buff-breasted sandpiper.
- Occurrence of intrageneric hybridization has been reported between the buff-breasted sandpiper ("Tryngites" subruficollis") and the white-rumped (or possibly Baird's, "Calidris" bairdii") sandpiper [...] – the parent species apparently do belong into the same genus, however (see calidrid) -, as well as between the common and the green sandpiper ("Tringa ochropus") [...].
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