Curlew
Genus of birds
Curlew
The curlews () are a group of nine species of birds in the genus Numenius, characterised by their long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage. The English name is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger", from courir, "to run". It was first recorded in 1377 in Langland's Piers Plowman "Fissch to lyue in þe flode..Þe corlue by kynde of þe eyre". (Fish [are made] to live in the flood [water], the curlew by nature of the air.) In Europe, "curlew" usually refers to one species, the Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata).
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