Curlew [noun]

A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead.

More than once at night the cry of migrating waders was heard, curlew being unmistakable, and (I think) bar-tailed godwit.

"The Curlew" dashed forward, rising and falling with the swells.

It was at once set; and "The Curlew" started on in the wake of the shower.

It ain't as if 'The Curlew' was loaded down, and lay low in the water.

Unfortunately the stern of the Curlew sank suddenly under the influence of a receding wave of unusual proportions.

Fill the lake with wild-fowl;Fill the marsh with snipe; While on dreary moorlandsLonely curlew pipe.

At the fall of the evening the wild note of the curlew sounds with piercing cadence.

The glossy ibis is often called bronze curlew, but this is a bad misnomer, as they are in no way related to the curlew.

The willet, or stone curlew as it is sometimes called, is a resident species, breeding from Washington to Mexico.