I first observed this curlew on August 17 at Karindingen Island, where 50 were feeding on the coral sand.
On November 24, a Common Curlew flew from Karindingen Island toward the mainland.
This was the most common curlew around Karindingen Island on November 24.
The following week at Derby she shared the bedroom with Sylvia and went so far as to give her an almost truthful account of the Wilfred Curlew business, but nothing could she get from Sylvia in return.
Naturally, she toldCurlew as kindly as she could that his proposal was far outside the remotest bounds of possibility.
One day after a long talk about well-known people in society, Curlew exclaimed from the depths of his inmost being, "If only I had you always!
In the starlit nights the curlew came in from the sand-bars by twos and threes; I could hear their faint call as I lay in bed thinking.
Curlew were flying up the river in twos and threes; the timid sea swallows skimmed across the moors toward some quiet, lonely pool, safe from the coming tempest.
On the bar hundreds of white gulls rose and settled as the tide encroached; curlew were running along the foam-splashed shore under the eastern cliffs across the river.
At last, faint and far across the valley, rose the doleful cry of a curlewthrice repeated, the which was answered from the east by the hooting of an owl, which again was caught up like an echo, and repeated thrice upon their right.
A blue heron flapped down beside him, and the curlew skipped off to another rock.
The other day the cute attitudes of a beach curlew interested me, as he stood upon a stone just awash, and ever and anon picked up a crab.
The dreary night passed at last, the larks burst into song above her head, and the cry of the curlew was heard on the moors.
The curlew is a long-shanked wading bird, with a curved bill half a foot in length, the curve in this case being downwards instead of upwards as in the avocet.
The next morning Whitney, after trying to get into range of a flock of curlew feeding among the sands, threw his gun upon his shoulder and set out for the Rowan.
Now and then a bleating of sheep and the whistle of a curlew came down the cold wind.
A curlew whistled overhead, and the sharp cry of a grouse rose from the darkening heath.
A solitary curlew called in the distance, but near at hand the liquid songs of the little reed-warblers fell thick and fast, like swift melodious raindrops.
A curlew called in the distance by the Oolloolloo, and near at hand some magpies began their finished trills and flutings, but stopped short as they seemed on the point of breaking into the mellow ripeness of summer song.
This species is known as the Jack Curlew in England and Scotland, where it is very abundant, and is a favorite game bird.
Eggs of the common Curlew of Europe, have been very frequently used as belonging to this species, but the eggs of our species have a lighter and more greenish ground, and the spots are smaller and more numerous.
The Curlew penetrates into the mud with its sickle shaped, slightly curved bill, and brings out of its depths the worms it feeds on.
Only those who have seen a frightened Curlew go up or down a creek lined with shore-shooters, shrieking as it flies, can form any idea of the bird’s swiftness.
There are somecurlew about, and the guillemots are in thousands.
They could hear the curlew whistling and the plover calling amid that monotonous plash of the waves that murmured all around the coast.
Such water birds as the avocets, godwits, greater yellow-legs, long-billed curlew and Eskimo curlew are becoming very rare.
Apparently this is the next shore-bird species that will follow the Eskimo curlew into oblivion.
The Eskimo curlew within the last decade has probably been exterminated and the other curlews greatly reduced.
The sale of game will not trouble New Mexico, because the present laws prevent the sale of all protected game except plover, curlew and snipe,--all of them species by no means common in the arid regions of the Southwest.
If long-billed curlew is not extinct, it seems due to become so.
Mr. Curlew had more than once hinted in the Presbytery of Muirtown that Dr.
Noo that bleatin' cratur Curlew 'at comes frae Muirtown is jist pittin' by the time.
There was only one sound in nature beyond the soughing of the wind in the shrubbery of the Duke's garden, it was the plaintive call of a curlew as it flew over the stable park.
The enormous quantities of ice reported by the whalers the previous year had not debouched from the narrow channel, and on the last day of June the Curlew had found her further progress effectually blocked.
Word has been received at this place of the safe arrival of the arctic steamship Curlew at Tasiusak, on the Greenland coast, bearing eighteen members of the Duane-Parsons expedition.
Then he said to himself: 'The curlew will be down feeding among the rocks; she will be calling to her young.
Contrary to published accounts, the Long-billed Curlew is a fairly common migrant in certain parts of southern Louisiana.
It might as well be a curlew at once, for it will always be a curlew to country people.
Dick Rice gave me two curlew an' two patrich calls to-day.
On the southwestern horizon from Toppid Mountain, when the sky is clear after rain, you can trace the outline of the Curlew hills, our southern limit of view from Knocknarea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curlew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
