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-knee
nounˈTHikˌnē
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.