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

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

Stilted :: Stilt (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer..

Dotterel :: Dotterel (v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

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..

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

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..

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

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