Peewit is really a gorgeous bird.   anvd [Please select]

Hence the names peewit, peaseweep and teuchit, commonly applied in some parts of Britain to this bird - though the first is that by which one of the smaller gulls, Larus ridibundus (see Gull), is known in the districts it frequents.   anvd [Please select]

Professor Ansted includes the Peewit in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.   anvd [Please select]

[Illustration: Curlew [M] Peewit [F] Dotterel [M] Norfolk Plover [F] [_face p.   anvd [Please select]

The Peewit, or Green Plover, as it is sometimes called, is among the best known birds indigenous to the British Isles.   anvd [Please select]

"Well, papa," said Jack, "I am tired of sitting here, let us now go and hunt for peewit's eggs."   anvd [Please select]

The peewit, as you saw, makes scarcely any nest, merely a hollow in the ground, with, perhaps, a few dried grasses.   anvd [Please select]

The peculiar instinct of the peewit in misleading people as to the whereabouts of its eggs, or young ones, is very curious.   anvd [Please select]