godwit
noun
god·wit ˈgäd-ˌwit 
: any of a genus (Limosa) of shorebirds that are related to the curlews and sandpipers and have a long slender slightly upturned or straight bill
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Recently, a godwit set the record for the longest nonstop flight by a land bird: 8,100 miles (13,000 kilometers) in ten days, from Alaska to Australia. 
Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022 An American golden-plover at Orchard Beach in Squantum, a marbled godwit at the Squantum Marshes, a little blue heron at Rosemary Lake in Needham, and two black vultures in the Blue Hills in Canton and another black vulture in Wrentham. BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022 Keith Woodley of the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre on the North Island of New Zealand reported that a male godwit carrying a satellite transmitter first left the mudflats near the Kuskokwim River on Sept. 11. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021 Martha’s Vineyard: Highlights featured a Eurasian wigeon in Edgartown, and a stilt sandpiper and a Hudsonian godwit in Chilmark. BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021 The area hosted an American white pelican at Sesachacha Pond and a marbled godwit at the UMass Field Station on Polpis Road. BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021 Senner hopes to use the system to track the Hudsonian godwit, a bird that migrates nearly 10,000 miles from Chile’s southern tip to Alaska. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020 There were also five marbled godwits and two Western sandpipers on Plymouth Beach and a little blue heron and a merlin at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2019 South Shore: Sightings from Plymouth included a marbled godwit at Holmes Point and a western tanager at the Eel River Preserve. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2019 See More
Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022 An American golden-plover at Orchard Beach in Squantum, a marbled godwit at the Squantum Marshes, a little blue heron at Rosemary Lake in Needham, and two black vultures in the Blue Hills in Canton and another black vulture in Wrentham. BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022 Keith Woodley of the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre on the North Island of New Zealand reported that a male godwit carrying a satellite transmitter first left the mudflats near the Kuskokwim River on Sept. 11. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021 Martha’s Vineyard: Highlights featured a Eurasian wigeon in Edgartown, and a stilt sandpiper and a Hudsonian godwit in Chilmark. BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021 The area hosted an American white pelican at Sesachacha Pond and a marbled godwit at the UMass Field Station on Polpis Road. BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021 Senner hopes to use the system to track the Hudsonian godwit, a bird that migrates nearly 10,000 miles from Chile’s southern tip to Alaska. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020 There were also five marbled godwits and two Western sandpipers on Plymouth Beach and a little blue heron and a merlin at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2019 South Shore: Sightings from Plymouth included a marbled godwit at Holmes Point and a western tanager at the Eel River Preserve. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
origin unknown
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above