Exercise intelligence of bird

• Shrill-voiced cousin of a plover
• Large crested Old World plover
• Lapwing gull
• Plover relative
• Plover named for its call
• Shrill-voiced bird

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 ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo["o]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ( Sayornis ph[oe]be , or Sayornis fuscus ). Called also pewit , and ph[oe]be . The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird ( Contopus virens ) similar ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK English) (alternative form of peewit English)