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Shriek of the Week: Curlew
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Shriek of the Week: Curlew

Mudheart
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I took to myself as pleasure
the gannet's noise and the voice of the curlew
instead of the laughter of men

~ The Seafarer (extract, translated from Old English)

As autumn deepens, the British coastline rings to the sound of curlews.

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