LAPWING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Lapwing

... been the subjects of unremitting persecution. The eagles, larger hawks, and ravens, have disappeared from the more cultivated districts. The haunts of the mallard, the snipe, the redshank, and the bittern, have been drained equally with the summer dwellings of the lapwing and the curlew. But these species still linger in some portion of the British isles; whereas the large capercailzies, or wood grouse, formerly natives of the pine forests of Ireland and Scotland, have been destroyed within the last fifty years. The egret and ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 531, Saturday, January 28, 1832. • Various

... little larks, The lapwing, and the snipe, And tune their song like Nature's clerks, O'er meadow, muir, ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan