Curlew

Available for over a year

The Curlew is Europe’s largest wading bird, instantly recognisable as they lumber from the mud into the air like old gentlemen, with their long legs, mottled brown feathers, and thin down curved bills. Of their evocative call, Rabbie Burns once wrote that he had "never heard the loud solitary whistle of a curlew on a summer noon ... without feeling an elevation of soul".