Eskimo curlew
northern curlew

Eskimo Curlews are small curlews, about 30 centimeters in length.

It is closely related to the North American Eskimo Curlew.

Eskimo Curlews picked up food by sight, as well as feeding by probing.

This large brownish sandpiper with a decurved bill shows its kinship to the nearly extinct Eskimo curlew.

Eskimo Curlew, a rare species of curlew.

In the field, the only certain way to distinguish the Eskimo Curlew are its unbarred undersides of the primaries.

The Eskimo Curlew is a New World bird.

As a sample of the level of destruction, 8,000 golden plovers and Eskimo curlews were shot on Monomoy in a single day.

Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis - critically endangered, possibly extinct (early 1960s?)

Eskimo Curlews migrated to the pampas of Argentina in the late summer and returned in February.

Eskimo Curlew: A Vanishing Species?

At one time, the Eskimo Curlew may have been one of the most numerous shorebirds in North America with a population in the millions.

Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)

Last of the Curlews is a novel, a fictionalized account of the life of the last Eskimo Curlew.

Full details on all sightings up to 1986 are included in the on line edition of Eskimo Curlew: A Vanishing Species?

The Eskimo Curlew is one of eight species of curlew, and is classed with them in the genus Numenius.

With the passenger pigeon gone forever, the Eskimo curlew reduced to a phantom and the masses of waterfowl to a scattering, conservationists finally persuaded the Government to act.

The State Endangered Species List currently includes two birds (Short-tailed Albatross and Eskimo Curlew) and three marine mammals (blue whale, humpback whale, and right whale).

Notable current and former residents of Ocean Grove include: The 'Eskimo Curlew' or 'Northern Curlew' ('Numenius borealis') is/was a medium-sized New World shorebird.

Last of the Curlews Animated special about a father and son who go hunting, and debate whether or not to kill an Eskimo curlew, which may become [and may now be] extinct.

Eskimo Curlew formed a species pair with the Asian Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, but is slightly larger, longer-winged, shorter legged and warmer in plumage tone than its Asian relative.

They will try to balance the rights and needs of native people, and of animals with exotic names like the beluga, bufflehead, Eskimo curlew and Hudsonian godwit, against the rights and needs of city dwellers.

In the 1800s millions of Eskimo Curlews followed migration routes from the present Yukon and Northwest Territories, flying east along the northern shore of Canada, then south over the Atlantic Ocean to South America in the winter.

Perhaps more important, according to Capparella, is the lack of sightings by "the legions of competent birdwatchers ... scanning the skies of the U.S. and Canada" who sometimes make "surprising observations" with cameras at the ready (see for example 20th-century sightings of the Eskimo Curlew).

A comparison of dates and migratory patterns has led some to conjecture that Eskimo Curlews and American Golden-Plover are the shorebirds that attracted the attention of Christopher Columbus to nearby land after 65 days at sea and out of sight of land on his first voyage.

The Eskimo Curlew or the Northern Curlew is one of eight species of curlew, and is classed in the genus Numenius.

Notable current and former residents of Ocean Grove include: The 'Eskimo Curlew' or 'Northern Curlew' ('Numenius borealis') is/was a medium-sized New World shorebird.