“White-rumped”

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white-rumped sandpiper

noun

: a common small migratory sandpiper (Erolia fuscicollis) of eastern North America that breeds in the arctic and winters in southern South America and that is streaked buff and grayish brown with a conspicuous white rump

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white-rumped shrike

noun

: a western North American shrike (Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides) that is largely gray above and plain white on the underparts

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