peetweet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a North American name for the spotted sandpiper, derived from its call

   A peetweet bobbed along the stony margin of the pond.

Imitative of the bird's repeated piping call. The name has been used regionally in North America for the spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius, which Thoreau called Totanus macularius under an older classification.

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