piovanello pancia nera

/pyoh-vah-NEHL-loh PAHN-chyah NEH-rah/
[Italian]

"Plover with black belly." Dunlin (US: red-backed sandpiper). A small coastal wader which in summer has a distinctive black patch on its breast. Some sources refer to this as snipe rather the dunlin, which it more properly is.

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