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

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

Sabrebill :: Sabrebill (n.) The curlew.

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

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

Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) A curlew.

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

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..

Whitterick :: Whitterick (n.) The curlew.

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..

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

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

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