The history of the stone curlew, charadrius oedicnemus is as follows.

I am assured now that it is the stone curlew (charadrius oedicnemus).

The stone curlew, our little bustard with the long wings, big, yellow eyes, and wild voice, still frequents the uncultivated downs, unhappily in diminishing numbers.

This study presents the first isolation of mycoplasmas from stone curlews.

Look and listen out for Stone curlews -crow-sizedbirds whose large yellow eyes enable them to find food in the dark.

That they are not noxious to some animals is plain: for ducks, buzzards, owls, stone curlews, and snakes, eat them, to my knowledge, with impunity.