a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, (Limnodromus scolopaceus)

a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, (Limnodromus griseus)

A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,

Alternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.

A large auk, Uria lomvia.

Chroicocephalus genei, a mid-sized gull which breeds very locally around the Mediterranean and the north of the western Indian Ocean.

Larus delawarensis, a medium-sized gull of temperate North America.

A medium-sized tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, family Laridae, with a thick stout black bill, found in marshy and coastal habitats throughout the temperate and tropic zones worldwide.

plural of gull-billed tern

(simile) Very much single; having no romantic involvement with anybody else.