"Peeps" are the small, difficult to ID sandpipers:  Semipalmated, Western, 
Least, etc.  "Peeps" comes from their soft calls.

-Walter
Columbia, MO





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are?<br><br>Thanks!<br>Susan Seyboth<br>Kansas City, 
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