Collective Nouns

A pride of lions, an exultation of larks, a murder of crows, an argument of academics—we know all of the common ones, but what do you call a flock of sanderlings?

A scurry?

A gobble?

A swivel?

A sweep?

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Intertidal Parabola

Sanderlings, which plunge their long skinny beaks into wet shore sand to catch clams and mole crabs and other tasty, burrowing morsels, run away from each approaching wave…

…But rush towards each retreating wave…

This can result in some interesting, if fleeting, beach art:

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