Crossword-Solution: GODWIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Godwit | n. | One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “GODWIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| has a long slightly upturned bill | 1 answer |
| large wading bird that resembles a curlew | 1 answer |
| shore bird with long legs and an upturned bill | 1 answer |
| Large shorebird | 2 answers |
| CURLEW-like bird | 2 answers |
| Snipe's kin | 3 answers |
| Long-billed wading bird | 4 answers |
| BAY bird | 5 answers |
| Large wading bird | 7 answers |
| A FLOCK OF SNIPE | 10 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN waterbird | 35 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GODWIT (5)
Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of the male bustard; on the differences between the females of two species of Oxynotus; on the habits of the Phalarope, dotterel, and godwit.
These were the birds we sought after in winter; but we could shoot for the table all the year round, for no sooner was it the duck's pairing and breeding season than another bird-population from their breeding- grounds in the arctic and sub-arctic regions came on the scene-- plover, sandpiper, godwit, curlew, whimbrel,--a host of northern species that made the summer-dried pampas their winter abode.
And besides this godwit, there are several other North American species, which have colonies in the southern hemi-spere, with a reversed migration and breeding season.
The godwit, already mentioned, has been observed in flocks at the Falkland Islands in May, that is, three months after the same species had taken its autumal departure from the neighbouring mainland.
The birds and ducks seemed to be trying to overtake the retreating sun as it worked its way southward, the godwit continuing its flight as far as New Zealand, where it yet continues to spend the winter months.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2009).