noun
definition
Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
definition
A stone curlew.
Examples of curlew in a Sentence
Walking back we saw 2 black-bellied sandgrouse and a stone curlew.
One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
Holwell and Haytor Down - managed under agri-environment scheme for wading birds including lapwing and curlew.
In the damp grasslands, breeding waders have also been recorded lapwing, curlew and snipe.
Despite disturbance from cutting, the lowland bogs are important for breeding waders lapwing, snipe and curlew have been recorded.
Inland lochans can hold red-throated divers, while, in summer, the hill ridges and moors have golden plover, curlew and skylark.
Breckland has its own wildlife specialities, such as wheatear, the rare stone curlew and Breckland thyme and Spiked speedwell.
Breeding Curlew were among the abundant breeding waders much in evidence on the moorland.
Waders and waterfowl are far less abundant, and those occurring are nearly all migratory forms which visit the peninsula of India - the only important exception being two kinds of solitary snipe and the red-billed curlew.
The Eastern Curlew was the 200 th bird of the trip, not bad for 8 days birding at a fairly leisurely pace.
Silurian rocks, with Old Red Sandstone over them, come out at the west end of the Curlew range at Ballaghaderreen.
In the North Pennines the SPA designation suggests there are nearly 4,000 pairs of breeding curlew.
Along with adjacent fens, these grasslands are home to waders, including curlew.
More than once at night migrating waders were heard, curlew being unmistakable.
Also here were 30+ long-billed curlew (bird of the trip ), at least four Brewer's sparrows and four Franklin's gulls.
A field with 87 Stone Curlew confirmed our rather fleeting views of two days ago.
Moorland birds include red grouse, snipe, curlew, wheatear and whinchat as well as ring ouzel.
On the plains a few waders breed, as the avocet, western willet and longbilled curlew; but most are birds of passage.
There are numerous species in these sheltered channels, inlets and sounds of geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, ibises, bitterns, red-beaks, curlew, snipe, plover and moorhens.
The ibis is somewhat larger than a curlew, Numenius arquata, which bird it resembles, with a much stouter bill and stouter legs.