doggerel

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Soon the island has lost its terns and its rails and its dotterels, but it has an abundance of rats.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2020

Four foxes were the only land animals we saw; and a small hawk, some gulls, dotterels, and phaleropes, composed the list of birds.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Game, pheasants, fowls, partridges, larks, hares, dotterels, wild ducks, teal, snipes, widgeon, grouse.—Fish.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

All kinds of waterfowl are at all seasons abundant in the Nile waters, and especially frequent the pools left by the retiring river—pelicans, geese, ducks, ibises, cranes, storks, herons, dotterels, kingfishers, and sea-swallows.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George

In the second were all kinds of game and wild-fowl, roast herons three in a dish, bitterns, cranes, bustards, curlews, dotterels, and pewits.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison