Exercise intelligence of bird

• Lapwing gull
• One of the flycatchers
• Plover's cousin
• Little bird
• Small black-headed European gull
• Training with international aristocrat not off to a flyer
• Shrill-voiced bird

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull , blackcap , pewit gull , Larus ridibundus ] large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [syn: lapwing , green plover , peewit ] small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lapwing" (still the usual name for it in Scotland), 1520s, imitative of its cry (compare Flemish piewit-voghel , Middle Low German kivit , German kiwitz ; also see kibitz ).