Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

The Whimbrel, an Almanac

• The Whimbrel is counted, in these parts, kin to the churchyard.
• The Society has lately concluded, to no small controversy, that the specimen, when galvanized, exhibited spontaneous flight, to the astonishment of the assembly.
• Where two Whimbrels fall to quarreling, a lawsuit follows inside the twelvemonth.
• There's them that swear the Whimbrel will not sing where a man in his cups has lied.
• Grandmothers in the back forty still tell that the Whimbrel settling on the root-cellar door at dusk is fair warning of trouble at the county seat.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.