purple sandpiper

English

Noun

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
- 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:
  Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…

Translations

Calidris maritima

Catalan: territ fosc m
Dutch: paarse strandloper (nl) m
Faroese: grágrælingur m, grælingur m
Finnish: merisirri (fi)
Greenlandic: sissarmiutaq
Icelandic: sendlingur (is)
Irish: gobadán cosbhuí m
Lule Sami: fiervvatjoavtjoj
Northern Sami: fierváviroš
Norwegian: fjæreplytt
Polish: biegus morski m
Skolt Sami: reddviârvvaž
Slovak: pobrežník morský
Swedish: skärsnäppa (sv) c

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