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stone curlew

Whimbrel \Whim"brel\, n. [Cf. Whimper.] (Zo["o]l) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius ph[ae]opus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.

Hudsonian or, Eskimo, whimbreal, the Hudsonian curlew.

stone curlew

Willet \Wil"let\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large North American snipe ( Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.

Carolina willet, the Hudsonian godwit.

Wiktionary
stone curlew

n. Several species of large terrestrial birds in the family Burhinidae.

WordNet
stone curlew

n. large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint [syn: thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus]

Usage examples of "stone curlew".

The alligators congregated like hounds around their master, the wheeling cries of the dense cloud of sentinel birds overhead, nile plover and stone curlew, piercing the morning air.