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a shorebird with a beak built like a question mark and a cry that haunts the moors
bent billLong curved beak probes deep mud for hidden worms
named by soundIts haunting cur-lee call gave the bird its name
vanishingEskimo curlew likely extinct, others near collapse
long haulSome migrate thousands of miles between breeding and wintering
medieval omenIts night cry was once feared as death's herald