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little whaup
Whaap Whaap, n. [So called from one of its notes.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup. (b) The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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- is often referred to just as the "curlew", and in Scotland known as the "whaup" in Scots. The Eurasian curlew was formally described by the Swedish naturalist...
- reivers, including "The reiver's heart" (1903), "The raiders" (1904), "Whaup o' the rede: a ballad of the border raiders" (1909), "Kirkhope Tower" (1913)...
- (cuckoo) and Loanends (where the lanes end) in County Antrim, Crawtree (crow), Whaup Island (curlew) and Whinny Hill from 'whin' (gorse) in County Down and the...
- "Black Trackers" "Coo-ee" "Comrades" "The Bush" "Steeds of the Mist" "The Whaup" "The Ingleside" "The Horseman" "The Signpost" "A Song of the Poets" "The...
- building. The church is very similar to the early 16th century church at Little Dalton. The Category B Listed churchyard contains several 17th and 18th...
- A Scotch night, The Australian, Summer country, Kings of the earth, and Whaup o' the rede. Ogilvie was born at Holefield, near Kelso, Borders, Scotland...
- on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how! Robert Louis Stevenson The Legend of...
- Kennan's Isle, Lamb Island, Lodge Island, Stony Island, Threave Island, Whaup Islands Highland River Beauly NH468416 Eilean Aigas Highland Black Water...
- Modern Times Blackwood Edinburgh and London MacLeod, Innes (2001) Where the Whaups are Crying (A Dumfries and Galloway Anthology) Birlinn Edinburgh ISBN 1-84158-149-6...
- interrupted by a large flock of whaups. Angrily shouting at them, he is accosted by a bird calling itself a Respectable Whaup that wants to know why he has...