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thick-knee

NOUN
  1. large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint

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  • Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
  • Stone curlews - now called thick-knees - glare at you in basilisk manner, spurt stiffly a few yards and then glare at you again, surprised that you're still there.
  • The beach thick-knee is gray-brown on the back and pale on the belly.
  • Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
  • Ironically, the Spotted Dikkop has proven to be the only thick-knee I've not seen in the world.
  • Cape thick-knees mate for life and are protective parents, nesting in a shallow scrape next to a small landmark.
  • Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
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