What is "godwits"

Usage examples of "godwits".

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.