Definition of "godwit" [god•wit]

• Any of various large shore birds of the genus Limosa, having a long, slender, slightly upturned bill. (noun)

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• "n Members of the Francis M. Weston Audubon Society have reported spotting a marbled godwit, which is rare in this region, and a roseate tern, which hasn't been spotted near Pensacola since 1958."
• "He lost his wife to cancer, is a deep thinker – especially when out looking for a pectoral sandpiper or a black-tailed godwit – badly dressed, anti-consumerist and becomes convinced that, for all the police efforts, society is falling apart and "anarchy rules"."
• "In 2007, an even more astonishing record was established by a bar-tailed godwit."