thick-knee in English
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1
a large-eyed ploverlike bird with mottled brownish plumage, inhabiting open stony or sandy country.
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.
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1. The Bush Stone-Curlew, or Bush Thick-knee, is a large, slim, mainly nocturnal, ground-dwelling bird