It is also essential winter habitat for up to 500,000 overwintering ducks and waterbirds such as teal Anas crecca (160,000), wigeon Anas Penelope (100,000), greylag goose Anser anser (100,000), most of Spain's herons, white stork Ciconia ciconia, stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus and slender-billed gull Larus genei. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There are more than 2,000 flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) in Cabo de Gata, and the endangered seagulls, Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) and slender-billed gull (L. Genei), as well as stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) are found in Punta Entinas-Sabinar. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Endangered species include Regent honeyeaters, bush stone-curlew, squatter pigeon, superb parrot, swift parrot, turquoise parrot, gray-crown babbler, painted honey-eater and black-throated finch. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some of these birds build in ravines and clefts, and on cliffs, as, for instance, the so-called charadrius, or stone-curlew; this bird is in no way noteworthy for plumage or voice; it makes an appearance at night, but in the daytime keeps out of sight. ❋ Unknown (2002)
So well recognised among birdfanciers was this valuable property of the stone-curlew that when they had one of these birds for sale they kept it carefully covered, lest a jaundiced person should look at it and be cured for nothing. ❋ Unknown (1922)
The ancients held that if a person suffering from jaundice looked sharply at a stone-curlew, and the bird looked steadily at him, he was cured of the disease. ❋ Unknown (1922)
So well recognised among birdfanciers was this valuable property of the stone-curlew that when they had one of these birds for sale they kept it carefully covered, lest a jaundiced person should look at it and be cured for nothing. ❋ Unknown (1922)
He finds that all bird-dances are not nuptial, but that some birds -- the stone-curlew (or great plover), for example -- have different kinds of dances. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
The figures opposite, of the wings of two African species of stone-curlew which are sometimes found in the same districts, well illustrates these specific recognition marks. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
I wonder that the stone-curlew, _Charadrius oedicnemus_, should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird: it abounds in all the champaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex, and breeds, I think, all the summer, having young ones, I know, very late in the autumn. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
When I have obtained information with respect to this circumstance, I shall have finished my history of the stone-curlew, which ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Dear Sir, -- With regard to the _oedicnemus_, or stone-curlew, I intend to write very soon to my friend near Chichester, in whose neighbourhood these birds seem most to abound, and shall urge him to take particular notice when they begin to congregate, and afterwards to watch them most narrowly whether they do not withdraw themselves during the dead of the winter. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Dear Sir, -- The history of the stone-curlew, _Charadrius oedicnemus_, is as follows. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
I am assured now that it is the stone-curlew (_Charadrius oedicnemus_). ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
As yet I have not quite done with my history of the _oedicnemus_, or stone-curlew; for I shall desire a gentleman in Sussex (near whose house these birds congregate in vast flocks in the autumn) to observe nicely when they leave him (if they do leave him), and when they return again in the spring: I was with this gentleman lately, and saw several single birds. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
I have got you the egg of an _oedicnemus_, or stone-curlew, which was picked up in a fallow on the naked ground. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
