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Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

Squeamish :: Squealer (n.) The American golden plover.

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Toadhead :: Toadhead (n.) The golden plover.

Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover..

Ringlestone :: Ringlestone (n.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover..

Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover..

Whew :: Whew (v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover..

Pratincole :: Pratincole (n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail..

Killdeer :: Killdeer (n.) A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).

Dulwilly :: Dulwilly (n.) The ring plover.

Stone-hearted :: Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel..

Quaily :: Quaily (n.) The upland plover.

Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) The golden plover.

Sea Plover :: Sea plover () the black-bellied plover.

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