sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)
fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); (lit.) a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)
common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus)
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)
grey-tailed tattler (species of sandpiper, Heteroscelus brevipes)
wandering tattler (Tringa incana)
black-tailed godwit (species of sandpiper, Limosa limosa)
phalarope (any sandpiper of family Phalaropodidae)
Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
red phalarope; grey phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
common redshank (Tringa totanus)
ruff; reeve (species of sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax)
ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)
black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus); stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae); avocet
Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)
pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)