bristle-thighed curlew
Americannoun
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Ever since, ornithologists have wondered where the bristle-thighed curlew really lives and does its reproducing.
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Dr. Allen promised to bring back intimate motion picture studies of the bristle-thighed curlew at home.
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In 1869, a bristle-thighed curlew was spotted on the Alaska coast.
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The ruddy turnstone and bristle-thighed curlew fly more than 2,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to the Hawaiian islands on their way to the South Pacific.
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Ornithologist Lincoln added that the swift discovery left only one North American bird-mapping mystery unsolved: where nests the bristle-thighed curlew?*
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