"The best-known English stone curlew haunt at the present time is surely in the , now a (Clarke 1937, Mason & McClellan 1994, Taylor et al. 1999: 78-79), where the birds can conveniently be watched from the 's . Some 5-7 pairs have nested on the 137-hectare (338-acre) stony at least since 1970 (Westwood 1983)."
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Stone-curlews
s are birds that form 10 species in 3 different genera: ', ' and '. The 3 genera are part of the Burhindiae, which was introduced into avian taxonomy in 1912 by the Australian ornithologist . Curlews and stone-curlews belong to different avian families.
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