curlew🔊

Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.

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"Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew.

Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (1810)

(Australia) A stone curlew (Burhinidae spp.).

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