Shrill-voiced cousin of a plover

• Training with international aristocrat not off to a flyer
• Shrill-voiced bird
• Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
• Lapwing gull
• Plover named for its call
• Old World bird
• One of the flycatchers
• Small black-headed European gull

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laughing \Laugh"ing\, a. & n. from Laugh , v. i. Laughing falcon (Zo["o]l.), a South American hawk ( Herpetotheres cachinnans ); -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laugh. Laughing gas (Chem.), hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen ...