godwit
- n large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill
- New Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits,.
- You can see everything from a red-necked stint to an Asiatic golden plover to a black-tailed godwit as the migrating fowl stop over to munch at the reserve's shrimp ponds.