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Перевод: curlew

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1. However, given a reasonable state of preservation, you should come to no harm at Scourie; and most days will see you happily tramping anything up to six miles, fishing perhaps a dozen different waters along the way, with golden eagle, red deer and curlew for company.
2. Each evening, after supper, Ann and I would launch the boat and fish the long summer night, accompanied by the sound of curlew and ghostly shape of long-eared owl; and happy splash of rising trout.
3. Downland breeding species such as the Dartford Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Stonechat, Wheatear, and Stone Curlew used to be found in areas now covered by residential and industrial development, and some species dependent on beaches have been severely reduced, such as the Little Tern and the Ringed Plover.
4. Buzzard, golden eagle and harrier shadowed our way; curlew piped from spagnum tussocks; soft, seemingly endless sunny summer days amidst a peaceful, glorious world.
5. Fresh pork embellished with egg-yolk, pine cones, raisins, saffron and pepper and baked in pastry; fish tarts; roasted lampreys; mutton, plover, curlew, snipe and pheasant.
6. He introduced the Deer Act and spoke seventy-seven times during the Wildlife and Countryside Bill ("I cannot understand why anyone should want to shoot a curlew.
7. In the English Lake District I have heard them mimicking the curlew, a bird not found in the Cambridge area.
8. I also saw my first fulmar, sweeping the cliffs on stiff wings, endlessly gliding with miraculous ease; hen harrier haunted the moorlands; golden plover and curlew cried plaintively from banks of peat; statuesque heron stared balefully into shallow pools; widow-black cormorant dried their dark wings on seaweed-covered rocks.
9. CURLEW - Numenius arquata
10. Since then the road has born all the traffic; George's Lane and Quay have been allowed to overgrow and become a peaceful and unspoilt backwater, home of the curlew and heron.
11. then down the wind came the boom of the great stanchion-gun; and after that sound another sound, louder as it neared; a cry as of all the bells of Cambridge, and all the hounds of Cottesmore; and overhead rushed and whirled the skein of terrified wild-fowl, screaming, piping, clacking, croaking, filling the air with the hoarse rattle of their wings, while clear above all sounded the wild whistle of the curlew, and the trumpet note of the great wild swan.
12. One surprised me by mimicking the bubbling call of a curlew.
13. This would deprive wading birds such as curlew and snipe of an ideal breeding sanctuary.