In Pittsburgh we don’t have sandpipers but in the winter we have something similar. Can we call them “land-pipers?”
Click here for a Throw Back Thursday article from 2008 about our substitute for shorebirds: Land-pipers.
UPDATE: Richard Nugent suggests they be called “lawn-pipers.” Excellent name!
(photo by “Mr. T in DC”, via Flickr, Creative Commons license. Click on the image to see the original.)
Having seen flocks of starlings feeding, perhaps lawn-pipers would be a suitable name.