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    I’ve been a goggle-eyed plover for many’s the year

    Jul 07, 2021 3 minutes

    THERE are birds that lift the soul with their song and others that delight the eye with their beauty. The stone curlew is not one of them. Poets have been moved to verse by the sound of a nightingale and artists sent scampering off to grab the nearest paintbrush by the grace of a swan, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever been driven to creative ecstasy by Burhinus oedicnemus.

    That’s not to say the creature is without oddball appeal. An

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