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curlew

any large shore bird of the genus Numenius, such as N. arquata of Europe and Asia: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc.), order Charadriiformes. They have a long downward-curving bill and occur in northern and arctic regions.
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UK conservationists were outraged, as many Curlews that winter on the French coast breed on moorlands in Britain and Ireland.
Hope, faith, diligence and hard work headed up by Amanda Perkins, Curlew Country project manager, was rewarded earlier this year when one of the first Curlew Country head-start chicks, hatched in 2017, was spotted to have returned to its native territory here on the Shropshire-Welsh Marches border in May.
One project, in the Shropshire hills and Welsh Marches, lost all its curlew eggs and chicks to predators despite installing electric fencing and cameras around nests.
It depends whether or not you value the sight and sounds of curlew, lapwing, larks, yellowhammers and the like.
High tide on the Solway can be spectacular with clouds of Dunlin and Knot in the air, chased by Peregrines and the flooded fields can be filled with flocks of Curlew, Lapwing and Golden Plover."
Bird watchers spotted the curlew at a fish pond in Barangay (village) Sibacan.
The RSPB has launched a five-year curlew recovery programme, led by Sarah Sanders, who spent two years based in Newcastle.
Rueben grabbed it and carried it off across the moor - while under aerial attack from the mother curlew.
Curlew Close resident Laura Davies said the pile of recycling had steadily grown directly outside her window before being collected yesterday.
In a '90 Second Statement',' he said: "The curlew is special.
the curlew the really elements of celebrated and song.
Empiric Student Property plc (LSE:ESP) disclosed on Tuesday that it acquired Foss Studios student accommodation scheme in York for GBP23.3m, without costs from Curlew Student Trust.
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