curlew

The curlew would fly with them for a time, but his greater speed would gradually drive him ahead.

Usually this alteration in the air pattern was the curlew 's first warning that he was overtaking a flock of birds ahead.

If there's water nearby you might hear a curlew.

But no other shorebird except the golden plover flew as fast as the curlew did, and each time he slowly overtook the bird producing the vortex ahead.

And even some endemic shorebirds like long-billed curlew.

When he found one of these vortexes, the curlew took advantage of it and followed it with one wing riding the updraft edge of the horizontal column of spiraling air.

When can we expect compatibility with Curlew templates?

Occasionally one of the curlew's wings would bite into the harder, spiraling air of a vortex left by the the wingtips of a migrating shorebird ahead of him, for even the passage of another bird left a trail in the air that the curlew's delicately sensitized wings could detect.

We've got a few blocks of open fields right next to our house and there are several families of sandpipers (or some other sort of curlew I guess?) that nest in the grass.

And you alone can hear the invisible starfall, the darkest-before- dawn minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride.

I saw someone nearly step on a nesting Bush Stone Curlew, despite the protests from the bird's mate, because they were staring at their phone.