Spanisch - Englisch
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- curlew
- Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills
- {n} a kind of water and land fowl
- A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill
- A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry. a bird with long legs and a long beak that lives near water (corlieu, from the sound it makes). Any of eight species (genus Numenius) of shorebirds having a sickle-shaped bill that curves downward at the tip, a streaked, gray or brown body, and a long neck and legs. Curlews breed inland in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and migrate far south. They eat insects and seeds during migration but feed on worms and fiddler crabs while wintering on marshes and coastal mudflats. The eastern curlew is the largest species (24 in., or 60 cm, long); the common, or Eurasian, curlew, almost as large, is the largest European shorebird. The Eskimo curlew is now virtually extinct
- large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
- {i} long-billed wading bird