Bird identification?

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Spotted this bird ( dead unfortunately) this morning on the way to school. Dd was fascinated and asked what type of bird it is.
I have no clue except it must be a winter sea bird as we are on the coast.
Have looked online and originally thought a curlew but it's beak is much shorter and straighter.
Any ideas from bird aficionados so that I can tell her when I pick her up?

Def a woodcock

Well lots of suggestions here.

100% woodcock.

Woodcock - facial pattern and evenly barred tummy are among the ways to distinguish it from Snipe (and Jack Snipe). Huge numbers (more than a million) come to the UK from the continent in late autumn, and some of these migrants get very lost and show up in all sorts of places, even city centres.

Well comparing photos of the 2 birds I am inclined to think it is a woodcock as well.
I have sent a photo to the RSPB asking them if they could ID it. Watch this space!

I think its a woodcock too, DH a birder and he also says woodcock
Looks this picture here

It is without question a Woodcock. We have a sedentary, resident, breeding population here in the UK, but their numbers are boosted by winter migrants from Eastern Europe, the Baltic, Scandinavia and Russia. They arrive exhausted and often flop down as soon as they make landfall, before recuperating and making their way inland. They also frequently land on the decks of ships in the North Sea!
Active mainly at dawn and dusk, feeding in damp boggy areas and wet pasture, eating primarily earthworms, hence the long bill, used for probing in the soil. Fascinating and beautiful birds, well camouflaged for their environment amongst leaf litter and debris on woodland floors. The females are said to be able to fly holding their young between their legs - allegedly witnessed by many, but never yet proven with photographic evidence, as far as I am aware

Sandpiper? Or am I being very silly!

Well officially confirmed by RSPB it's a woodcock. They basically said the same as @Hedgesfullofbirds and that it's easy to get woodcocks and snipes confused. That it was possibly migrating from Russia and Finland through the night and had possibly collided with a window.
A sad ending at the end of a long trip.
Thank you all.