Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Semipalmate: mostly used of the birds themselves: as, the semipalmated plover, snipe, sandpiper, etc. See cut under
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Examples
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Eastern Willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA.
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Migratory birds, such as semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) and whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) are found mostly from September through April, during their seasonal movements.
Bahia mangroves 2008
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It's been almost four years now, four years of sitting quietly in my study and sipping tea and contemplating the migratory patterns of the semipalmated plover.
Canonical Writers 2008
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Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.
grackles, and ants, and stripers, and shorebirds, oh my! 2009
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There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover.
fall 2009
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There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The one semipalmated plover I watched on the beach was the only one of those I saw.
big lightning 2008
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I started the shift watching a semipalmated plover methodically feeding in the wet sand, moving from north to south.
big lightning 2008
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The one semipalmated plover I watched on the beach was the only one of those I saw.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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