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whaup

(wɔːp; Scottish hwɔːp)

(Animals) chiefly Scot a popular name for the curlew

[C16: related to Old English huilpe, ultimately imitative of the bird's cry; compare Low German regenwilp sandpiper]

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The burn was full of trout; the wood of cushat-doves; on the open side of the mountain beyond, whaups would be always whistling, and cuckoos were plentiful.

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However, there will hopefully be in these next few days and weeks, a return of birds such as the curlews, better known perhaps as "whaups" and the lapwings which glory in an abundance of pseudonyms.

The sound of spring is music to our ears

During the visit, he was presented with a wooden carving of two curlews, known locally as whaups.