stone-plover

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The stone-curlew, thick-kneed plover, or thick-knee, a charadriomorphic or plover-like wading bird of the family Œdicnemidæ, Œdicnemus crepitans, a common bird of Europe. See cut under Œdicnemus.
• noun Hence, one of various limicoline birds of the plover and snipe families.