avocets

Noun

avocet (plural avocets)

1. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
   • The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128