(n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some once-common bird species, such as lapwings and curlews, whose populations have declined rapidly in recent years, could vanish altogether from smaller breeding sites, experts warn.
(2) The number of grey partridges in the UK sank by 50% since 1970 due to the intensification of farming, while curlew sandpipers in Australia lost 80% of their number in the 20 years to 2005.
(3) Even so, 37 birds once common in the UK, such as lapwing, puffin and curlew are now close to dying out because of habitat loss, climate change and increasingly intensive farming.
(4) Breeding birds feeding on the estuary in summer include curlews, shelducks and oystercatchers.
(5) Third-stage spiruroid larvae were found encapsulated on the serosa of the small and large intestines and in the mesentery of one of 15 adult upland sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda) from Manitoba, Canada, and three of 18 adult long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) from Alberta, Canada.
(6) As it foraged next to a lone Eurasian curlew , both probing the waterlogged pasture with their long, down-curved bills, it was easy to see how the ibis came by its alternative (though taxonomically incorrect) name of "black curlew".
(7) Skylarks, yellowhammer, linnets and stone curlews are among the species the RSPB is most worried would suffer from the loss of set-aside.
(8) Stone-curlews (also known as ‘thick-knees’) are members of the wader tribe (though I have never seen a stone-curlew actually wade); and are mainly nocturnal – hence the large eyes.
(9) He said snipe, redshank, lapwing, curlew and black-tailed godwit, were all species that had declined rapidly in numbers in recent years.
(10) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(11) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
(12) It would be tragic to imagine a world without puffins, curlews, turtledoves and oyster catchers.” .
(13) STAY a five-minute drive away at Lower Stock Farm (01934 862 997, lowerstock.co.uk , doubles £75) set in 250 acres of working land The Curlew at Bodiam, East Sussex Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos They like to point out that stile meets style at the Curlew at Bodiam (mains from £21) and big city cuisine almost certainly influences this country kitchen.
(14) Almost a year on, the radio series will soon reach its end, with Kate Humble's account of one of our more elusive birds, the stone curlew .
(15) What about the argument that declining birds such as curlew thrive on land managed for grouse?
(16) As I peer through my binoculars, a huge eye stares back at me: belonging to a Bush Stone-curlew .
(17) This brought on an unprecedented wave of extinctions or near misses; the Carolina parakeet and the Rocky Mountain locust were driven to extinction and the Pronghorn antelope, the bison, black-footed ferret, Eskimo curlew, ivory-billed woodpecker, heath hen and others were brought to the brink.
(18) Owned by Mark and Sarah Colley and awarded a Michelin star in 2011, the Curlew uses the best (mostly local) ingredients while still offering remarkable yet affordable dinners.
(19) There were golden plover and curlew and lapwing displaying and it was pretty impressive but if there had been a pile of 400 stoats by the road and however many foxes and weasels and a pile of illegally killed hedgehogs, badgers, peregrines, goshawks and short-eared owls then the lapwing and curlew don’t look quite so impressive.
(20) As I left a curlew flew soundlessly through the ash grove.
Migratory
Definition:
(a.) Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
(a.) Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, the absence of NGF receptors on premigratory neural crest and early migratory neural crest cultures was not due to enzymatic alterations of the receptor.
(2) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(3) In the study reported here we examined the migratory responses of mouse peritoneal macrophages using a multiwell chamber.
(4) The migratory ability of neutrophils was assessed using a 48-well microchemotaxis chamber, with an incubation of 1.5 h at 12 degrees C. The two neutrophil populations showed different responses to N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP).
(5) The migratory phase is transient and therefore permits analysis of factors regulating the motile activity of cells in tissues.
(6) In these populations it is necessary to consider the relations between emotional distress and socio-political context, particularly the processes of terror and intimidation and the conditions of migratory illegality and social marginality.
(7) We investigated the role of 1,2-diacylglycerol, one of the products of receptor-linked phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, in mediating the migratory response of leukocytes.
(8) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(9) These migratory properties of lymphoblasts are probably relevant to their migration into inflammatory sites in vivo.
(10) The alveolar macrophages were increased in number and size but marked cytoplasmic vacuolation and a paucity of lysosomes are consistent with our previous suggestion that the phagocytic and migratory properties of these cells are weakened or inhibited.
(11) Three months later she developed subcutaneous nodules and migratory polyarthralgias.
(12) Explants isolated before normal migration had commenced required 3-8 h in vitro before neural crest cells started migration, but explants obtained at migratory stages showed an immediate onset of migration.
(13) Our results showed that phagocytosis of such particles did not alter these migratory responses of chronic granulomatous disease neutrophils and suggest that phagocytic stimulation of normal neutrophils may modulate migratory function by some mechanism dependent upon hexose monophosphate shunt stimulation.
(14) Percoll-purified high density small lymphocytes had little or no migratory capacity under these conditions, requiring a longer incubation time (4 hr) for consistent migration.
(15) Neutrophil migratory function recovered between 4 and 8 h but was again depressed at 24 h. The data demonstrate the complexity of the response to TNF, comprising direct and indirect effects which are concentration-, time- and place-dependent.
(16) Both types of cells are closely associated with processes of radial ependymal glia cells, which perhaps orient their migratory pathways.
(17) We have previously shown that fetal and adult human skin fibroblasts display distinctive migratory phenotypes when cultured on 3-dimensional collagen gels in vitro.
(18) This report describes a patient with a migratory abscess as a sequel to the surgical removal of a mandibular third molar tooth.
(19) The alterations in FMLP-induced migration caused by the three drugs tested were mainly chemokinetic and were due to changes in migratory speed.
(20) The cell surface phenotype of dinitrophenol (DNP)-specific memory B cells, defined by their capacity to transfer IgG responses into syngeneic irradiated recipients, was assessed using two markers of relevance to lymphocyte migratory properties: (i) peanut agglutinin, which binds to terminal galactosyl residues expressed at high levels by several nonmigrating lymphocyte subsets and, among lymph node B cells, is highly specific for germinal center cells; and (ii) MEL-14, a monoclonal antibody specific for lymphocyte surface receptors required for migration from the blood into peripheral lymph nodes.