curlew

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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
curlew sandpiper
A type of sandpiper, calidris ferruginea
curlew sandpiper
Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
curlew.
whaup
stone curlew
Several species of large terrestrial birds in the family Burhinidae
stone-curlew
Alternative spelling of stone curlew
A curlew
sicklebill
The curlew
sabrebill
The curlew
saberbill
The curlew
whitterick
curlews
plural of curlew
curlews
numenius
eskimo curlew
New World curlew that breeds in northern North America
european curlew
common Eurasian curlew
stone curlew
large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint
stone curlew
wading bird having a thickened knee joint
curlew

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    cur·lew

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    Etymology

    [ 'k&r-(")lü, 'k&rl ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English, from Middle French corlieu, of imitative origin.
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