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half 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.

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- includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as wood****s, curlews and snipes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked...
- The Druridge Bay curlew was a curlew that was present in Druridge Bay, Northumberland in May 1998, whose species identification proved to be controversial...
- birds three species are particularly noteworthy. Up to 20 pairs of stone-curlew representing 12% of the British po****tion breed on the plain. The area...
- the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic Asia and Europe as far south as Scotland...
- interest in the class at the club which resulted in the first 2 Seabirds, Curlew No.30 and Goeland No.31 arriving at West Kirby in 1907 and 1909 respectively...
- HMS Curlew was the mercantile sloop Leander, launched at South Shields in 1800. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 and named her Curlew as there was...
- beaches located on both sides to the boat access. About half of the pond is surrounded by the Curlew Pond public camping area of the Myles Standish State...
- part of the diet of the critically endangered or possibly extinct Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis) on its spring migration and the extinction of the locust...
- The Battle of Curlew P**** was fought on 15 August 1599 during the campaign of the Earl of Es**** in the Nine Years' War, between an English force under...
- Curlew Camp was an artists' camp established in the late 19th century on the eastern s**** of Little Sirius Cove, now part of Greater Sirius Cove in Sydney...