curlew

How To Use curlew In A Sentence

• At first glance there seemed to be nothing on the mussel beds, but closer inspection revealed a few Curlews, and about 100 Golden Plovers.
• It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
• But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
• The lapwings have gone, along with the curlews and redshanks. Times, Sunday Times
• Below the wood, a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us, its mate calling from across the dale.
• Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
• Stone curlews - now called thick-knees - glare at you in basilisk manner, spurt stiffly a few yards and then glare at you again, surprised that you're still there.
• Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn't have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.
• After a while, heather monoculture is broken by an intake field and our path leads to a shallow valley that is a mosaic of ground-cover greens and is curlew country.
• Some, such as the oystercatchers, redshank and curlew, were still finding food by probing with their beaks. Country diary: Burghead, Moray