Examples from literature

• A curlew flew past me, borne out of the darkness, and its cry made me feel sad and shiver. 
• Are the curlew calling? 
• Large flocks of Spanish curlews, one of the best-flavoured birds that fly, were hovering about, and lighting on it on all sides. 
• Nothing could be seen except four or five large curlew, which, with their loud screaming, were wheeling over my head, and now and then alighting upon the prairie. 
• The small birds of the plains and the curlew are still abundant: we saw but could not come within gunshot of a large bear.