0 a large, brownish-coloured bird with long legs and a very long, curved beak, usually found near water
A curlew flew past me, borne out of the darkness, and its cry made me feel sad and shiver.
Large flocks of Spanish curlews, one of the best-flavoured birds that fly, were hovering about, and lighting on it on all sides.
Nothing could be seen except four or five large curlew, which, with their loud screaming, were wheeling over my head, and now and then alighting upon the prairie.
The small birds of the plains and the curlew are still abundant: we saw but could not come within gunshot of a large bear.
Innumerable boulders, relics of the glacial period encumbered the track, the only sound we heard was the croak of the curlew the whistle of the golden plover.
On the hills, most ground-nesting birds, such as curlew, plover, merlin or hen harriers, would be wiped out.
The curlew is another bird classed as a food bird.
