“So willet bey,” Mary Botoner said, jabbing her bony finger at the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

This is definitely the first time I have seen a willet chase flying insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

In fact in the comparative flycatching department, the only interesting participant was a willet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

She angles past a willet standing one-legged in the sand, its head tucked onto its back like a spoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-11] Reference

This bird is currently classified as a sister subspecies along with the western willet, T. s. inornatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata] Reference

Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference

Amongst birds, for example, there is evidence that ecological specialists and rare species such as the willet, seaside sparrow and sharp-tailed sparrow are less abundant in P. australis stands than non-P. australis stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America] Reference

While 20 species occur regularly along the sand flats and mud flats of the estuary, four species, the willet, dowitcher, western sandpiper and marbled godwit, account for a large part of the bird population throughout the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference

Eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata] Reference

Runners-up in abundance were the dunlin (29 percent of the total), least sandpiper (12 percent), American avocet (8 percent), and willet (6 percent).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference

I have no doubt, is the Tringa arenaria of Linnaeus: its fliape was fhort and thick, very different from that of the Sanderfing or Cur - willet; and it had alfo a perfeft back toe with a claw, which that bird is entirely deftitute of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference

Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Waferfowl] Reference

September 13th, 2005 at 3: 16 pm car willet says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Coburn’s Hypocrisy A Crying Shame] Reference

= Western willet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Quail, woodcock, upland plover, golden plover, black-bellied plover, willet, dowitcher, red-breasted sandpiper, long-billed curlew, wood-duck, purple martin, redheaded woodpecker, mourning dove; gray squirrel, otter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

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