thick-knee

Japanese: thick-knee(英語表記)thickknee
thick-knee

…At first glance, these birds resemble plovers, but they are slightly larger than lapwings and have large eyes. Their English name is thick-knee. There are three genera and nine species in this family, and they are widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World, including southern Europe, Africa, India, South Asia, Australia, and South America, but they do not live in Japan.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "thick-knee" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この仲間は一見チドリ類に似るが,タゲリなどよりひとまわり大型で,眼が大きいのが特徴である。英名はthick‐knee。この科には世界で3属9種があり,ヨーロッパ南部,アフリカ,インド,南アジア,オーストラリア,南アメリカなど,旧世界の熱帯を中心に広く分布しているが,日本にはすんでいない。…

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