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stone curlew: see thick-knee thick-knee, common name for terrestrial, Old World birds in the family Burhinidae. The name derives from the bird's thickened tarsal joints. Thick-knees are shy, solitary birds. They are rapid runners with long legs and partially webbed feet, which lack a hind toe.
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Stone Curlew

(Burhinus oedicnemus; in Russian, avdotka), a cranelike bird. It is sandy gray with black markings and a whitish breast; approximately 45 cm long. The curlew lives in Europe, Middle and South Asia, and North Africa; in the USSR it is found in Kaliningrad Oblast, the south European regions, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, and Middle Asia.

The stone curlew lives in deserts and steppes near water. The nocturnal bird feeds on insects, lizards, and small rodents. It lays two (rarely, three) yellowish eggs with dark speckles in a depression in the sand or on the ground; both parents sit on the eggs 26 days. It is a migratory bird.

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Ptitsy Sovetskogo Soiuza, vol. 3. Edited by G. P. Dement’ev and N. A. Gladkov. Moscow, 1951. Page 15.

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Other animals found in the park include crested serpent eagles, cheetahs, flycatchers, mongooses, langurs, stone curlews and wild boars as well as jungle fowls, fishing eagles, cobras, paradise flycatchers and panthers.

Visiting Tadoba National Park by Dave Text / Travel, recreation and leisure community

But there was good news for a few species in the latest assessment, with the bullfinch, quail, reed bunting, Scottish crossbill, stone curlew and woodlark all being downgraded from the red list to the amber list.

Fears for the Cuckoo's survival by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)

But the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) warned wildlife such as skylarks and stone curlews would be under threat as a result of the loss of uncropped land following the European move for this harvest year.

Set-aside land to be significantly reduced by The Journal (Newcastle, England)