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Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..

Longirostres :: Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division..

Thick-knee :: Thick-knee (n.) A stone curlew. See under Stone.

Maybird :: Maybird (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap..

Whitterick :: Whitterick (n.) The curlew.

Doughbird :: Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

Curlew :: Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill..

Willet :: Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew..

Whimbrel :: Whimbrel (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix..

Whaap :: Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup..

Sabrebill :: Sabrebill (n.) The curlew.

Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) A curlew.

Hudsonian :: Hudsonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew..

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