whimbrel
noun
whim·brel
ˈ(h)wim-brəl 
: a curlew (Numenius phaeopus) chiefly of the northern coastal regions of North America and Eurasia
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At Forest Beach in Chatham there was a pectoral sandpiper along with a whimbrel and the continuing marbled godwit and 5 Western willets.
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BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and 42 whimbrel at Indian Neck in Wellfleet.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
But the whimbrel is in trouble, along with more than 350 other North American bird species that migrate internationally each year.
—Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
But the cities share something in common besides ice and cold: the whimbrel.
—Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
Another shorebird, the whimbrel, also makes a phenomenally long journey over the ocean.
—Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
The migratory path of a whimbrel may extend from nesting areas in the Arctic to wintering grounds as far south as Bolivia.
—CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel, and a laughing gull.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory’s shearwater, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a whimbrel, a Forster’s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
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BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and 42 whimbrel at Indian Neck in Wellfleet.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
But the whimbrel is in trouble, along with more than 350 other North American bird species that migrate internationally each year.
—Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
But the cities share something in common besides ice and cold: the whimbrel.
—Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
Another shorebird, the whimbrel, also makes a phenomenally long journey over the ocean.
—Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
The migratory path of a whimbrel may extend from nesting areas in the Arctic to wintering grounds as far south as Bolivia.
—CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel, and a laughing gull.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory’s shearwater, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a whimbrel, a Forster’s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
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