(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.