pickmire

From pick +‎ mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire.

pickmire (plural pickmires)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) The peewit, or black-headed gull.

• “pickmire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• empirick