stone curlew
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How to use stone curlew in a sentence
The willet, or stone curlew as it is sometimes called, is a resident species, breeding from Washington to Mexico.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast | Harry Thom PayneWillet, wil′et, n. a North American bird of the snipe family, belonging to the tattler group—also Stone-curlew.
Dear Sir,—The history of the stone-curlew, Charadrius œdicnemus, is as follows.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 | Gilbert WhiteThe stone curlew seems to be fully alive to the fact that the safest hiding-place is often the most conspicuous and open one.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles DixonIt struck him suddenly that Miss Latimer herself looked like a stone-curlew.
The Third Window | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
British Dictionary definitions for stone curlew
any of several brownish shore birds of the family Burhinidae, esp Burhinus oedicnemus, having a large head and eyes: order Charadriiformes: Also called: thick-knee
Origin of stone curlew
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