curlew
- n large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
- So numerous was the elegant long-billed, long-legged Eskimo curlew, which Audubon painted during an 1833 trip to Labrador, that "the accounts given of these curlews border on the .
- O, curlew, cry no more in the air .
- However, the curlew has been fading out for yearseven before pesticides.