sanderling

English Thesaurus

1. small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sandpiper,
definition	:	any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	crocethia, genus crocethia,
definition	:	a genus of Scolopacidae (noun.animal)