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semipalmate
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semipalmate [¦sem·i′päl‚māt]
(vertebrate zoology)
Having a web halfway down the toes.


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When commercial harvesters dug worms from a mudflat in Canada's Bay of Fundy, the disruption destroyed other creatures that semipalmated sandpipers eat, researchers report in the April CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
The lower river near Long Beach features significant migrant species, including the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, black-necked stilt, long-billed dowitcher, semipalmated plover and black-bellied plover.
The scientists monitored how long semipalmated and white-rumped sandpipers stayed at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in central Kansas and how much weight they put on during their visit.
 
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