Curlew
noun
A type of large, long-legged bird with a long, curved beak.
A curlew was calling from the marshes
Often appears as...
- curlew call
- curlew nest
noun
A type of large, long-legged bird with a long, curved beak.
A curlew was calling from the marshes
Often appears as...
- curlew call
- curlew nest
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Bird Type
Curlews are shorebirds, so you'll often hear or read about them in coastal contexts.
We observed several curlews near the beach yesterday.
Pro Tip 2/3Beak Function
The curlew uses its long curved beak to probe the sand for food, which can be worms or small crabs.
The curlew was busy probing the mud with its beak during low tide.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
Curlews are known for their loud, melancholic call, which is often referenced in poetry and literature.
In the quiet of the evening, the curlew's call echoed across the water.
Pro Tip 1/3Bird Type
Curlews are shorebirds, so you'll often hear or read about them in coastal contexts.
We observed several curlews near the beach yesterday.
Pro Tip 2/3Beak Function
The curlew uses its long curved beak to probe the sand for food, which can be worms or small crabs.
The curlew was busy probing the mud with its beak during low tide.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
Curlews are known for their loud, melancholic call, which is often referenced in poetry and literature.
In the quiet of the evening, the curlew's call echoed across the water.
Pro Tip 1/3Bird Type
Curlews are shorebirds, so you'll often hear or read about them in coastal contexts.
We observed several curlews near the beach yesterday.
Pro Tip 2/3Beak Function
The curlew uses its long curved beak to probe the sand for food, which can be worms or small crabs.
The curlew was busy probing the mud with its beak during low tide.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
Curlews are known for their loud, melancholic call, which is often referenced in poetry and literature.
In the quiet of the evening, the curlew's call echoed across the water.
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Stewart Brand: The dawn...
and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker, for the Eskimo curlew, for the Caribbean monk seal,
Video examples
Stewart Brand: The dawn...
and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker, for the Eskimo curlew, for the Caribbean monk seal,
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Quote examples
Nicholas Soames
British Politician
As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.
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Nicholas Soames
British Politician
As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.
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