sandpiper
- n any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
- Leonard Lyons, who is as sharp-eyed and lively as a sandpiper, flits in and out of restaurants and nightclubs picking up tidbits on kings, stars, villains and dog-biters.
- Three are occasional visitors to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands: the bristle-thighed curlew, the Siberian pipit, the sharp-tailed sandpiper.
- Others on his growing worry list include the bobolink, the upland sandpiper and the loggerhead shrike.