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Definition of thick-knee in English: thick-kneenoun another term for stone curlew Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- The beach thick-knee is gray-brown on the back and pale on the belly.
- Ironically, the Spotted Dikkop has proven to be the only thick-knee I've not seen in the world.
- 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.
Definition of thick-knee in US English: thick-kneenounˈTHikˌnē A large-eyed bird resembling a plover with mottled brownish plumage, inhabiting open stony or sandy country. Family Burhinidae: two genera and several species, in particular Burhinus oedicnemus of Eurasia and Africa Also called stone curlew Example sentencesExamples - The beach thick-knee is gray-brown on the back and pale on the belly.
- Cape thick-knees mate for life and are protective parents, nesting in a shallow scrape next to a small landmark.
- 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.
- 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.
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