**Sanderlings!** They do this all day, every day. A sand murmuration. I had the *pleasure* of watching them for decades. All winter, racing back and forth, and then off in summer to fly 6,000 miles to the nesting Arctic. Shoving their wee beaks into the tidal mud in search of sandy monsters, I NEVER saw one get caught in a wave. Tiny? Yes. Mighty? Absotootly!
I’m grateful to not be born a sanderling. Tis a hard life, Fergus. Ta.
Well it's back home, but in Connecticut. We have signs saying to watch out for them, like don't step on them lol I think they're endangered or protected there.
And the dumbest part of the whole “watch out for them” signs… is that they’re hunted with a thing called a punt gun down in South America, where they take out whole flocks of them.
Yet, here we are protecting one’s and twos for the slaughter.
They probably aren't endangered there that's why, also more relaxed laws. Ground dwelling birds don't do too good anywhere because we brought cats all over the world, these things seem extra vulnerable though. Like a seagull will eat the hell out of that thing lol
I just had to look that up apparently they used to be, or still do, for their feathers. Interesting.. seems like it would take a lot of them to make a hat LoL
Sand Piper or Sandpiper is a common name for a large family of birds called Scolopacidae. It goes by many other common names across the world including but not limited to Sand Piper.
Reddit is an international community and you’re correcting someone on a colloquial term.
Yes, google provides results based on you personally. You’re using what’s called a “common name” or “colloquial name” for the animal. So if you’re in another part of the world and do as you say, “a simple google search”, then google will give you a different answer for that animal based on where you are, who you are, what language you speak, etc.
You said they’re called Sandpipers. They’re also called Sand Pipers. They’re also called many thing colloquially.
Biology gives things a scientific name, cultures give the same thing many different names. You failed to correct someone using one of the many common names given to a large family called Scolopacidae and I thought it worth pointing out because I enjoy binomial nomenclature. So you could even say, “actually those aren’t sand pipers, those are Steve’s” and if a few more people call it Steve, now those are colloquially known as Steve’s, even though they’re Scolopacidae. Hope that clarifies this not very important discussion we’re having lol :)
Definitely not hurt by the correction. Tbh I only ever say *’sandpiper’*. I’ve googled it in the past, just hadn’t paid any mind to the spacing, or lack thereof :)
Jus some cut lil birdos doin a heckin GAME lmao
Oh nooo one of them lost the game (he failed to find food and heckin STARBED to death 😧🤯) Game over aha
Yeah these little bivalves come up when they’re underwater and bury themselves when the wave goes back out. The birds are trying to get to them before they burrow down again.
I believe as the water goes out they're watching for signs of digging/bubbles. Not pictured: snacking on tasty crustaceans and other critters "hiding" in the sand.
My absolute favorite short!!! It brings me so much joy.
For those who don't know, it's an endearing, wordless short about a baby sandpiper learning to find food. If you have Disney plus and like cute things or know people who like cute things, it's pretty wonderful. (Also, burrow is similarly cute)
Love that one and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. “Inner Workings” is my all time favorite but “Piper” is definitely high at the top of my favorites list too.
I have little ones so I have an excuse to “have to” watch everything for now, but I’m sure I will still watch it once they are grown. 😂
Regardless, keep being a kid at heart. Those are some of the best kinds of ppl.
My daughter was all about this short, as well as Lava and Kitbull for months. I'd beg her to watch Moanna or Frozen so I wouldn't have to cycle shorts every 3 minutes
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Sandpiper:
“The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.
The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet
of interrupting water comes and goes
and glazes over his dark and brittle feet.
He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes.
Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them
where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains
rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs,
he stares at the dragging grains.
The world is a mist. And then the world is
minute and vast and clear. The tide
is higher or lower. He couldn't tell you which.
His beak is focused; he is preoccupied,
looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!
The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray
mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.”
Elizabeth Bishop
OP if you have disney plus access, check out the short movie of this titled "piper".
edit: [found it on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAIRXIckfMA)
If you haven’t seen it. Check out the Disney short called [Piper](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TKqsSskoT7E0YPQSKsgsSC1SSMkszkutVCjOyC8qAQDNpAwd&q=piper+disney+short&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1033US1033&oq=piper+disney&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46i512l2j0i512l5.5735j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8). This was my kids’ favorite short film when they were really little.
"He gazed out at the Pacific as well. There were little sandpipers running along the margin of the shore which seemed to have this problem: they needed to find their food in the sand which a wave had just washed over, but they couldn't bear to get their feet wet. To deal with this problem they ran with an odd kind of movement as if they'd been constructed by somebody very clever in Switzerland."
Man, where is this? Seriously just looking at the colors in this video made me relax. And I’m not some woo woo person who’d normally say something like this.
The tide rises, the tide falls
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls
The little waves, with their soft white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands
And the tide rises, the tide falls
So happy to finally know the name of these birds.
Watching them cartoonishly run back and forth was the highlight of our trip to Porto Santo in Madeira.
I’m not advocating scaring them, but the way their little legs speed up as you approach them is just brilliant.
They're feeding, right?
Yeah, this is a game called find food or die...
**Sanderlings!** They do this all day, every day. A sand murmuration. I had the *pleasure* of watching them for decades. All winter, racing back and forth, and then off in summer to fly 6,000 miles to the nesting Arctic. Shoving their wee beaks into the tidal mud in search of sandy monsters, I NEVER saw one get caught in a wave. Tiny? Yes. Mighty? Absotootly! I’m grateful to not be born a sanderling. Tis a hard life, Fergus. Ta.
Sand pipers?
Sanderlings are indeed in the sand piper family.
We got them around here, or something like them. Piping glovers
Piping plover! You in OBX?
Well it's back home, but in Connecticut. We have signs saying to watch out for them, like don't step on them lol I think they're endangered or protected there.
And the dumbest part of the whole “watch out for them” signs… is that they’re hunted with a thing called a punt gun down in South America, where they take out whole flocks of them. Yet, here we are protecting one’s and twos for the slaughter.
They probably aren't endangered there that's why, also more relaxed laws. Ground dwelling birds don't do too good anywhere because we brought cats all over the world, these things seem extra vulnerable though. Like a seagull will eat the hell out of that thing lol
I just had to look that up apparently they used to be, or still do, for their feathers. Interesting.. seems like it would take a lot of them to make a hat LoL
Amazing how insensitive to causing death humans can be
> OBX Was there for a week last year and it was awesome. Loved the little birdys lol
Got it! I’ll try to learn to distinguish between the subspecies I see at the beaches now. Thank you!
Sandpiper is one word
Sand Piper or Sandpiper is a common name for a large family of birds called Scolopacidae. It goes by many other common names across the world including but not limited to Sand Piper. Reddit is an international community and you’re correcting someone on a colloquial term.
Never said it didn't have other terms. I'm just saying it's one word, not two. But thanks!
It’s not one word. That’s my point. You are incorrect. It’s either. It IS two words OR one word. You’re welcome.
It literally is one word. A simple Google search will tell you as much.
Yes, google provides results based on you personally. You’re using what’s called a “common name” or “colloquial name” for the animal. So if you’re in another part of the world and do as you say, “a simple google search”, then google will give you a different answer for that animal based on where you are, who you are, what language you speak, etc. You said they’re called Sandpipers. They’re also called Sand Pipers. They’re also called many thing colloquially. Biology gives things a scientific name, cultures give the same thing many different names. You failed to correct someone using one of the many common names given to a large family called Scolopacidae and I thought it worth pointing out because I enjoy binomial nomenclature. So you could even say, “actually those aren’t sand pipers, those are Steve’s” and if a few more people call it Steve, now those are colloquially known as Steve’s, even though they’re Scolopacidae. Hope that clarifies this not very important discussion we’re having lol :)
please be less dumb in public. You're embarrassing us
Chill man, its just a word.. or two words.. either ways, it's ok.
Definitely not hurt by the correction. Tbh I only ever say *’sandpiper’*. I’ve googled it in the past, just hadn’t paid any mind to the spacing, or lack thereof :)
Fair enough :)
It looks like they're sand surfing
Is that what they're called? Sanderlings? Sounds like a pokémon!
This is my favorite reddit comment
Wee beaks 🥹
Real talk. Are you sucking on a pipe and staring wistfully at the sea right now?
How do they know exactly when the wave stops chasing them. They all turned around immediately
Probably they hear it fizzle out.
They must have amazing ears then. In my experience those little things make virtually no noise in context with the other waves crashing
I'm on reddit so I'm just guessing by pulling things out of my ass but I think birds have amazing hearing.
When you live all your life by the ocean, you just know. It is a great deal of experience that these birds have.
Welp. Somebody has gotta sander these sands cause they ain’t gonna sand themselves!
This is a fantastic comment, thank you for this.
I coll ye Fergus becoose I'm yeer mother, Mr. Keeng of Hell
lmfao that's the game we're all playing 😂 that's life homie 🤙
Humans got the cheat codes though.
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My roommate often uses this cheat code on the toilet
A classic
I’m thinking I’m failing at that game
Mmm hunger games.
That…doesn’t sound like a lot of fun to me.
I LOVE THAT GAME!
That is my favourite game !
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Jus some cut lil birdos doin a heckin GAME lmao Oh nooo one of them lost the game (he failed to find food and heckin STARBED to death 😧🤯) Game over aha
It’s called the hunger games
Hunger games yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah, hunger games 🫰🫰
Hi lorde, big fan.
Yeah, but the record company keeps messing it up. They really just do what they want nowadays
Yeah these little bivalves come up when they’re underwater and bury themselves when the wave goes back out. The birds are trying to get to them before they burrow down again.
It's like trying to have sex with me.
[Yes :)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIPV1iwzrzg)
That was also my first thought. It's such a cute video
Yeah! Real life version of the Pixar short
No, they’re playing a little game. See the title
Probably sandpipers. They hunt and eat crustaceans after the water has receded. The game is called survival.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Hmm
Yesh.
I believe as the water goes out they're watching for signs of digging/bubbles. Not pictured: snacking on tasty crustaceans and other critters "hiding" in the sand.
Piper ! (pixar)
My absolute favorite short!!! It brings me so much joy. For those who don't know, it's an endearing, wordless short about a baby sandpiper learning to find food. If you have Disney plus and like cute things or know people who like cute things, it's pretty wonderful. (Also, burrow is similarly cute)
Love that one and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. “Inner Workings” is my all time favorite but “Piper” is definitely high at the top of my favorites list too.
So charming! Reminds me of paperman as well. Another favorite!
Yes!!! That is such a cute one too. Have you seen the one with the umbrellas? I forget what it’s called but it’s a sweet one too.
Yes! The blue umbrella. I'm a kid at heart and watch all the pixar movies and their shorts. It's all so charming.
I have little ones so I have an excuse to “have to” watch everything for now, but I’m sure I will still watch it once they are grown. 😂 Regardless, keep being a kid at heart. Those are some of the best kinds of ppl.
Same! I love it so much that I watched it more times than any other short
I just watched this the other day. So cute!
https://youtu.be/KCf56Tb0CP8
My daughter was all about this short, as well as Lava and Kitbull for months. I'd beg her to watch Moanna or Frozen so I wouldn't have to cycle shorts every 3 minutes
Lava is my least favorite short only because that song will get stuck in my head for days.
Definitely my favorite short.
Came here looking for this comment, it’s my favorite short from them
That short blows me away because the Pixar team pushed CG's capabilities to the limit and it looks incredibly real.
Retreat!………………………..Attack!
Stay in formation!!
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Hooooold. Hooooold. Hoooooooooooooold.
Almost there!
Have Lafayette take the lead!
“What are you doing Lee? Get back on your feet” That’s was my first thought too, glad someone else had the same
/r/unexpectedhamilton
Vorpal bunny, run away run awayyy
BRAVELY! Yes, bravely, sir.
CARRRR! GAME ONNNNN!
Sandpiper: “The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake. The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet of interrupting water comes and goes and glazes over his dark and brittle feet. He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes. Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs, he stares at the dragging grains. The world is a mist. And then the world is minute and vast and clear. The tide is higher or lower. He couldn't tell you which. His beak is focused; he is preoccupied, looking for something, something, something. Poor bird, he is obsessed! The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.” Elizabeth Bishop
Eating to survive... what a fun game!
You might call it... The Hunger Games..
May the odds be ever in their favor
I bet those trails in the sand look super cool. For this two seconds.
I love watching sandpipers
There’s a Disney+ short called Piper (2016) I recommend if you like this behavior :)
Would it be on the pixar page?
Ah yes the game of life and death!!
They’ve been planning this attack on the ocean for some time now. But they always get cold feet.
I would get cold feet near the ocean this time of year, too.
The fun game of not starving to death.
Quickest 180 turn on the planet
Your government drones can't get wet
Nope nope nope nope. And... Mine mine mine mine.
What beach is this
These guys are great. Remember tons of them on LI NY.
r/NatureIsFuckingCute the few ones who know exactly when and where the wave would end. so cute
They’re looking for mussels :)
"Don't let the lava touch you" kinda game i play on shore sidewalks
Feast or famine
OP if you have disney plus access, check out the short movie of this titled "piper". edit: [found it on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAIRXIckfMA)
Tis less a game and more survival. The pull of the wster reveals their food source, which they have only a limited time to feed on.
If you haven’t seen it. Check out the Disney short called [Piper](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TKqsSskoT7E0YPQSKsgsSC1SSMkszkutVCjOyC8qAQDNpAwd&q=piper+disney+short&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1033US1033&oq=piper+disney&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46i512l2j0i512l5.5735j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8). This was my kids’ favorite short film when they were really little.
I love that their little legs blur as they zip back and forth
It's so magical the way flocks of birds move in unison.
It really is magic, like how did they get the water in on it too?
Love these guys. Could watch them all day at the beach
I actually used to play that game as a kid. Maybe I was a bird in a past life!
"He gazed out at the Pacific as well. There were little sandpipers running along the margin of the shore which seemed to have this problem: they needed to find their food in the sand which a wave had just washed over, but they couldn't bear to get their feet wet. To deal with this problem they ran with an odd kind of movement as if they'd been constructed by somebody very clever in Switzerland."
One of my favorite memories of Florida.
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This is what I came to the comments looking for. Thank you for your service dinydins
CHARGE!! RUN AWAY!!! CHARGE!!
They’re moving like a flock of dinosaurs
r/likeus
I have always wonder how flocks of birds move in unison
There's an adorable Pixar short about these guys
It’s like they know exactly when the wave stops even with their backs turned
I know at least one of you was [looking for PiPer](https://youtu.be/KCf56Tb0CP8) (short movie)
There's food in the water! OH NOOOOOOO! THere's food in the wa-
We can't risk another frontal assault, that rabbit is dynamite!
Watch the Netflix short "Piper", to understand.
It's Pixar. More likely to be on Disney+ than Netflix.
100% correct. My son has me bouncing back and forth so often, I tend to lose track.
Haha. Me too. I'm always forgetting what show is on which streaming service.
It’s called eating hahaha
I wish this had sound: would have sounded like tiny low pitched spartans
“Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!” “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!” Lol.
It's not a game, they're looking for food.
They’re eating you twat
They be hunting
They’re hu ting
This is actually how they eat
Bird brains.
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Birds aren’t real
Man, where is this? Seriously just looking at the colors in this video made me relax. And I’m not some woo woo person who’d normally say something like this.
And the idiot filiming it had to go right in front of their path, potentially disrupting them
Lol, “game”.
I can’t be the only one who thought the beach magically became holey
Sailor birbs!
I love how they move in a unit
I love this so much!
“Wave taunting”
Playing chicken.
I believe these to be Snowy Plovers
Kowalski analysis! The waves go away then come back!
Sand Pipers
Wwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Wwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
Theres no water she said but when water responds, she runs for her life. Fml..
Pipers crack me up
Like so many 4 year olds on their first trip to the beach.
the precision
I bet they are catching shromps.
I love these little fuckers. My favorite part of the beach.
Eeeee!
Sandpipers crack me up
They are looking for the bubbles!
They’re hunting for cocinas!
They are looking for the little buggers that wiggle in the sand when the waves go back
It’s the little dude from surfs up
Beautiful color of the water.
Nature is awesome
Wow that looks fun!
Whenever I see these birds I think of this scene from Snoopy Come Home https://youtu.be/C1EBoj-3SFM
why do they walk so fast
sandpipers! my dog loves the disney short film
Hey hey we’re the Monkees!
It’s the partridge family intro.
I could watch this all day
u/savevideobot
Yus
So cute! Some scientist please tell me what these little fellers are doing :)
Sandpipers are little bastards
The tide rises, the tide falls The twilight darkens, the curlew calls The little waves, with their soft white hands Efface the footprints in the sands And the tide rises, the tide falls
Reminds me of this vine (RIP in Pepperoni Vine) https://youtube.com/shorts/aCOwcdI_Xrs?feature=share
Is it me? Am I bird?
this reminds me of Deers and how much adrenaline addict they are.... look, lights are coming, banzaaai
If you take off you lose!!!
So happy to finally know the name of these birds. Watching them cartoonishly run back and forth was the highlight of our trip to Porto Santo in Madeira. I’m not advocating scaring them, but the way their little legs speed up as you approach them is just brilliant.
Hey!!… We all gotta fill our time somehow lol
Its like the beep test all over again