Also tero-tero, teru-teru. [From its noisy cry.]
The Cayenne lapwing or spur-winged plover, Vanellus cayennensis.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., vi. (1873), 114. The teru-tero … is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
1834. W. B. Barrows, in The Auk, July, 279 (Funk). Tero-tero … is the bane of all water-fowl shooting in the marshes.
