At certain places they lure the birds with a decoy--a bird dried in the oven which is placed on the lake edge--and a pair of Curlews are almost certain to fall victims to the ruse.
Curlews allow themselves to be blown, or drifted only, when waiting over some favourite feeding-ground, before the tide has sufficiently left for them to feed.
Almost as interesting is it to see the stone-curlews fly back to their gathering-grounds, in the very early mornings, after feeding over the country, during the night.
But what a difference to when rival male stone-curlews advance against each other to the attack!
The shoals of the river, which at the entrance were very extensive, were covered with large flights of water-fowl; among which curlews and teals were abundant.
There were long hours at Les Chouettes when no sound was to be heard but the hooting of owls or screaming of curlews or the odd little squeak of the squirrels as they darted up and down and about the oak trees.
Crickets sang and curlews cried in the meadow, and the long ghostly hoot of an owl trembled through the motionless air.
The Curlews are coming;" this is as much of a saying here as that about the Wild Pigeons in Kentucky.
The accounts given of these Curlews border on the miraculous, and I shall say nothing about them till I have tested the fishermen's stories.
A few Curlews were shot, and a Black-breasted Plover.
The curlews went on wailing, and as if in answer a night owl sent forth his portentous HOOT--HOOT!
Dark clouds of Curlewswere seen winging their way towards the south, and thousands of Larks and Warblers were flitting through the air.
By my journal it appears that curlewsclamoured on to October the thirty-first; since which I have not seen or heard any.
The curlews were stilled, the wild creatures were likely lying motionless, trying to escape the heat, the little rustlings and murmurings of stirring vegetation was gone from the gardens.
The curlewsespecially were demonstrative, and flew about close above the men's heads, uttering loud, shrill cries.
Flocks of tiny shore birds tripped lightly over the soft mud of the banks, and brown and black long-billed curlews stalked over the grassy prairie.
And when the even was come there came so many curlews that it covered all their lodgings, and on the morn there lay like dew all about in their circuit.
Then God sent to them so great plenty of curlews that two days and one night they flew so thick by the ground that they took great number, for they flew but the height of two cubits.
Once the swan and wild-fowl glided By those sedges, green and tall; Here the booming bitterns nested; Here we heard the curlews call.
Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere, and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs.
It was shining blue weather, with a constantly changing prospect of brown hills and far green meadows, and a continual sound of larks and curlews and falling streams.
I'll make you hear the curlews and the gulls and see Jock and Tammas come in with the boats.
Little blackcurlews were flying hither and thither around it, mingled with a flock of great sea-gulls with gracefully rounded wings.
It was the starling, reproducing with perfect accuracy the call, as it was used to hear it from the high-flying curlews crossing the valley.
Stints and ringed plover, golden plover and redshanks were flitting everywhere from island to island on the mud and ooze; curlews were floating and flapping over the "fleets"; and all were in security.
On these the curlews breed, and occasionally fly right over the valley at a great height to the hills above Edenhall, uttering their long, musical call.
So the two young people travelled in a great loneliness of plovers and curlews and peewits, all singing and calling and whistling their hardest.
Already out on the face of the moorland the curlews were crying tentatively one to the other.
The crying of the island curlewscoming down each in long plane flight eased his mind.
The silence of the scrub was mysterious in the extreme, 'possums scuttled across my track, a stray dingoe had a long stare at me from some rocks above a creek, while curlews whistled at me from every pool.
Then I saw the Blackfellow's Well, pictured myself digging that lonely grave among the rocks, and seemed again to hear the curlews crying from the pool below.
The bogholes he knew As the curlews know them, And the rabbits' pads, And the derelict quarries.
Black-winged vampires flitting by, Curlews crying in the sky; Grey mists wreathing from the ground, Wrapping rath and burial mound.
In some districts where little beach is exposed during high-water, the Curlews will retire some distance inland, but return with remarkable punctuality as soon as the tide begins to ebb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curlews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
