On a cold morning , after overnight rain in North Queensland , these Bush Stone-curlews make use of the warmth of graves in the McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery , Cairns . Another Curlew , below , warms its feet on an old grave top decorated with reflective white stones , other birds visible near plots.
The mainly nocturnal Curlews , also known as the Bush Thick Knee, emit an eerie, wailing call , are rare in southern pastoral parts of Australia and regarded as threatened. In another sad event, the latest Little Darwin resident Curlew chick , a plump critter, disappeared overnight on Magnetic Island , taken by an unknown predator .
