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curlew
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synonyms: Numenius ???
tags: [avian]
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Definition:a group of eight different species of wading shorebirds that use their curved-beaks to dig for crustations along the shoreline.
photo: By Andreas Trepte - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15771576sound file: by Benboncan, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Drowsy curlews cried plaintively on the further bank, and in one of the bushes on the nearest side a nightingale was trilling loudly, taking no notice of the crowd of officers. The officers stood round the bush, touched it, but the nightingale went on singing.
Anton Chekhov. The Party and other stories.
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This tarn at least had birds; swallows dipped low over the water to drink, and plovers and curlews poked long bills into the muddy earth at its edges, digging for insects.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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listening to the aroused crickets in the endless hours of early morning and the implacable telling of time by the curlews,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.122 (1970)
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FOR TO BOILE FESAUNTES. PARTRUCHES. CAPONS AND CURLEWES. XXXV.
Take gode broth and do þerto the Fowle. and do þerto hool peper and flour of canel a gode quantite and lat hem seeþ þwith. and messe it forth. and þer cast þeron Podour dowce.
The Master-Cooks of King Richard II. The Forme of Cury (1390)
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One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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