Peewit

also called lapwing.

John Heath-Stubbs wrote of the bird's trick of leadinbg predators away from its nest:

The lapwing is a type of guile ? that guile
Is elemental, sacrificial love.
She tumbles across the field, trailing
A simulated broken wing, to draw you off
From the hollow scrape or dried out cattle-footprint
Where lie the blotched and pear-shaped eggs