Crossword clues for godwit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Godwit \God"wit\ (g[o^]d"w[i^]t), n. [Prob. from AS. g[=o]d good + wiht creature, wight.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringid[ae]. The European black-tailed godwit ( Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit ( Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit ( Limosa h[ae]mastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.
Wiktionary
n. Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus ''Limosa'', of the family Scolopacidae.
WordNet
n. large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill
Wikipedia
The '''godwits ''' are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus Limosa. Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. They frequent tidal shorelines, breeding in northern climates in summer and migrating south in winter. In their winter range, they flock together where food is plentiful. A female bar-tailed godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird.
They can be distinguished from the curlews by their straight or slightly upturned bills, and from the dowitchers by their longer legs. The winter plumages are fairly drab, but three species have reddish underparts when breeding. The females are appreciably larger than the males.
Godwits were once a popular British dish. Sir Thomas Browne writing in about 1682 noted that godwits "were accounted the daintiest dish in England".
The English name was first recorded in about 1416–7 and is believed to imitate the bird's call. The genus name Limosa is from Latin and means "muddy", from limus, "mud".
Usage examples of "godwit".
He was flying again, going on trips up north and out west to photograph birds he never had before, the marbled godwit, the prairie falcon.
The selection of wildfowl was especially cosmopolitan, including bittern, shoveler, pewit, godwit, quail, dotterl, heronsew, crane, snipe, plover, redshank, pheasant, grouse, and curlew.
Country and a National Geographic, on the coffee table, and she picked up the bird book for refuge in godwits and curlews, sandpipers, snipe, the repose they conjured as quickly gone with another turn of the page and she was up and through the kitchen, tapping on the white door Mister McCandless?
There were ruffled grouse, angrily complaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sandpipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying in parallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morning baking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawks staring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads of stones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.
Mounting to her eyes, her vexation seized wherever she turned them to be seized in turn by the unwavering leer of the Masai warrior on the magazine cover displayed, along with Town & Country and a National Geographic, on the coffee table, and she picked up the bird book for refuge in godwits and curlews, sandpipers, snipe, the repose they conjured as quickly gone with another turn of the page and she was up and through the kitchen, tapping on the white door Mister McCandless?
There were ruffled grouse, angrily com-plaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sand-pipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying inparallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morningbaking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawksstaring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads ofstones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.