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	Canadian Biodiversity: Eskimo Curlew
		Although the Eskimo curlew is not considered to be extinct, it is referred to in all current literature in the past tense.
		Eskimo curlews have also been seen in association with Whimbrels, and this was particularly noted in the 1900s when the Eskimo curlew numbers had drastically declined.
		In the breeding grounds, the Eskimo curlew nested primarily in open areas of tundra; the transition zone to spruce south of the tundra, described as lichen woodland, was another nesting habitat.
	biology.mcgill.ca /undergra/c465a/biodiver/2002/eskimo-curlew/eskimo-curlew.htm (5147 words)

	Marine Birds - Eskimo Curlew
		Although the Eskimo curlew was hunted for food, and its skin and eggs were sought by collectors throughout the 19th century, it was not until after the passenger pigeon had been hunted to near-extinction in the 1870s that settlers began to kill the curlew in vast numbers.
		Eskimo curlews, which migrated in flocks of thousands and could cover 50 acres of ground when they landed, were called "prairie pigeons" – highlighting their similarity to the passenger pigeon, and foreshadowing their similar fate.
		Most unfortunately of all, Eskimo curlews were good to eat- their dark meat was described as "tender, juicy, and finely flavored", was "considered by epicures the finest eating of any of our birds" and was "far surpassing any of our English game in richness and flavour".
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpl/organisms/birds/marine/sandpiper/Eskimocurlew.htm (1120 words)

	Curlew, Birds, Curlew, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
		The curlew inhabits marshes, beaches, mudflats, and prairies.
		Curlews feed on small aquatic life on the beaches, and on insects and seeds in the grasslands.
		The Eskimo curlew, of the west coast of the Americas, may recently have become extinct.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=34 (133 words)

	Eskimo Curlew in Kansas
		The lesson from the Eskimo curlew is simply that species considered common and numerous can become extinct or rare in a very short time span.
		The Eskimo curlew population crash mirrors the passenger pigeon.
		The Eskimo curlew was thought to be totally gone by 1940 but a few periodic sightings since then have kept them from being declared extinct.
	www.gpnc.org /ecurlew.htm (148 words)

	Eskimo Curlew Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Once called a "doughbird" for the thick layer of fat developed for migration, the eskimo curlew is a long-legged wading bird resembling a whimbrel.
		Eskimo curlews return from the wintering grounds in early May to June.
		Eskimo curlews breed in the northern Mackenzie (Northwest Canada), on wetlands north of the tree line, in open tundra and on tidal marshes.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/escufs.html (397 words)

	Saskatchewan Environment - Eskimo Curlew
		The under sides of the Eskimo Curlew’s outer wings are cinnamon coloured and unbarred, while the under sides of the Whimbrel’s outer wings are buff white and barred.
		The Eskimo Curlew arrived at the breeding grounds on the tundra and woodland transition zones of the Mackenzie District located in the North West Territories in late May. Their diet consisted mainly of ants, freshwater insects and the fruit of Black Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum).
		Eskimo Curlews were reported as early as mid-September in their major wintering grounds in the grasslands, or Pampas of Argentina in South America.
	www.se.gov.sk.ca /ecosystem/speciesatrisk/eskimocurlew.htm (1137 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Eskimo Curlew
		Whereas flocks of thousands of Eskimo Curlews were not uncommon in the mid-1800's, by 1900 observations of small groups anywhere in the Americas was considered a rare event.
		If a population of Eskimo Curlews still exists, it is bound to be very small (most estimates are all under 100 individuals), and highly susceptible to a single catastrophic event.
		The Eskimo Curlew received protected status early on in the U.S. and Canada with the passage of the migratory bird convention in 1916.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=80 (1374 words)

	NWT Wildlife and Fisheries - Eskimo Curlew
		Eskimo Curlews probably began breeding during their third year and lived between 10 and 30 years.
		COSEWIC designated the Eskimo Curlew as Endangered in Canada in 1978 because of their low population.
		In the NWT, Eskimo Curlews were protected from hunting and from disturbance by the formation of the Anderson River Migratory Bird Sanctuary and the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary.
	www.nwtwildlife.com /publications/speciesatriskweb/eskimocurlew.htm (631 words)

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		Curlew nests are shallow depressions in the surface of the open tundra.
		The Eskimo curlew is endangered because of unrestricted overhunting for the market, especially during its northward spring migrations through the midwestern United States.
		Very little is really known about the Eskimo curlew, but conservation suggestions have been to rigidly protect the individuals that are discovered and to keep a lookout for them in areas where they were formerly concentrated.
	library.thinkquest.org /25014/profiles/curlew/index.html (323 words)

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		Considering that the curlew was once so numerous that their flocks darkened the sky, their predation on these destructive insects likely was of benefit to 18th and 19th century agriculture in the U.S. There are no known negative economic aspects of the Eskimo curlew.
		South of the main staging grounds in the New England states, the Eskimo curlew was reported to have eaten field crickets (Gryllus and Nemobius) and grasshoppers (Acrididae), and to a lesser extent beetles (Carabidae and Scarabaeidae), spiders, moths, ants, earthworms (Oligochaeta), and grass seeds (Hudsonia tomentosa and Digitaria spp.) (20,26,35,36).
		The migration and mortality of the curlew in Britian and Ireland.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e107003.htm (3883 words)

	Vineyard Gazette - Nature
		Accounts of passenger pigeons and Eskimo curlews from various naturalists and in hunters' journals refer to massive flocks of millions of birds literally darkening the sky.
		The Eskimo curlew, a shorebird that once migrated past our shores in staggering numbers, was perhaps the most glaring example of man's decimation of these long-distance migrants.
		Eskimo curlews are similar to a bird that formerly was called the Hudsonian curlew but is now shown in current field guides as the whimbrel.
	www.mvgazette.com /features/nature/index.php?document=20020830_eskimo_curlew (762 words)

	EnviroZine - Features
		The historical breeding range of the Eskimo Curlew is in the upland tundra of the Northwest Territories, particularly within the Mackenzie District, and possibly also in the Yukon and Alaska.
		Eskimo Curlews were once a common species in Canada's north and on known Canadian staging areas, with numbers estimated to be in the millions in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Eskimo Curlews became the game bird of choice once the passenger pigeon became rare due to over-hunting; the passenger pigeon quickly became extinct.
	www.ec.gc.ca /envirozine/english/issues/29/feature3_e.cfm (850 words)

	All About Birds
		Despite its vast numbers, the Eskimo Curlew population was devastated over just a 20-year period, and was rarely seen after 1890.
		During its migration northward in April and May, the Eskimo Curlew depended almost exclusively on the abundant insect foods of native tallgrass and mixed grass prairies.
		Before its demise in the late 19th century, the Eskimo Curlew nested in the High Arctic (red areas on map) and wintered in the southern extremes of South America (purple areas on map).
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/private/AllAboutBirds/Conservation/ESCU.html (363 words)

	sociology - Curlew
		The curlews are a group of eight wader species, characterised by a long slender downcurved bill and mainly brown plumage with little seasonal change.
		The Upland Sandpiper is an odd bird which is closely related to the curlews, distinguished from them by its yellow legs, long tail and shorter, less curved bill.
		Note that the stone-curlews are not true curlews (family Scolopacidae) but members of the family Burhinidae, which is in the same order Charadriiformes, but only distantly related within it.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Curlew (152 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew
		Cory wrote: "The Eskimo Curlew may still occur during the migrations in Wisconsin and Illinois, but is becoming very rare and the species is apparently fast disappearing" (1909:424).
		The Eskimo curlew was always uncommon in the fall migration in Nebraska....The curlews were rarely seen near water, but were upland birds almost exclusively during the spring migration over the Great Plains region" (pages 339-340).
		While the multitudes of curlews that migrated through the Midwestern states undoubtedly flew over Saskatchewan, there apparently was no one in the province to confirm their occurrence Mitchell (1924:108) does not list it for the province.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/curlew/spring2.htm (4091 words)

	Esquimaux Curlew
		During their short stay in that State, they are met with on the high sandy hills near the sea-shore, where they feed on the grasshoppers and on several kinds of berries.
		It was at the dawn of a fine day, when a dense flock of the northern Curlews passed to the southward, near enough to enable us to ascertain the species, but so swiftly, that in a few minutes they were quite out of sight.
		On the 29th of July, 1833, during a thick fog, the Esquimaux Curlews made their first appearance in Labrador, near the harbour of Brag d'Or.
	www.abirdshome.com /Audubon/VolVI/00611.html (1388 words)

	Amazon.com: Last of the Curlews: Books: Fred Bodsworth,Abigail Rorer,W. S. Merwin,Murray Gell-Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Eskimo curlew was a species of shorebird that migrated (and perhaps, in extremely small numbers, still migrates) south from arctic Canada every fall, in a flight that took it eastward across Canada, and then, after feeding, south over the Atlantic to South America--this latter journey nearly 2,500 miles of nonstop flight.
		The Eskimo curlew, which once made its migration from Patagonia to the Arctic in flocks so dense that they darkened the sky, was brought to the verge of extinction by the wanton slaughter of game-hunters.
		The Eskimo Curlew was once a plentiful shorebird that was highly sought after by hunters because of the succulence of its flesh and the ease with which it could be taken.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Curlews-Fred-Bodsworth/dp/1887178007 (1720 words)

	Eskimo Curlew
		The Eskimo Curlew was once a common bird in nine different provinces in Canada.
		The Eskimo Curlew's general colour is warm buff or pale cinnamon brown.
		The Eskimo Curlew is a small shorebird with a slightly decurved bill.
	www.tgmag.ca /envbrain/curlew.html (190 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Eskimo Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The appearance in recent years of several of these birds in Canada and the United States, and the deplorable killing of one in Barbados, the West Indies, on 4 September 1963, furnish evidence that the Eskimo Curlew is still extant.
		A curlew in the hand can best be identified by noting the colour pattern on the underside of the outer primaries.
		In the Eskimo Curlew these are unmarked buff, but in the Whimbrel they are buff, barred with darker brown.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /MNH/nature/nsbirds/bns0135.htm (444 words)

	eskimocurlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Some of the eskimo curlews have fl markings on the back, but are almost all brown.
		When in the Tundra for the summer it is very cold with the ground permanently frozen and a little snow on the ground.
		Eskimo curlews feed mostly on insects and seeds.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0113224/eskimocurlew.htm (143 words)

	eBird \|\| North America's destination for birding on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But the Eskimo Curlew is an elliptical migrant, returning to its wintering grounds in South America via the east coast.
		Fifth, the wing linings of the Eskimo Curlew are cinnamon, those of the Whimbrel are grayish, and in the Little Curlew the wing linings are buffy.
		In the Eskimo Curlew the head stripe is absent or indistinct.
	www.ebird.org /private/content/news/yard_survey.html (3334 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew: A vanishing species?
		Appendix 2 -- Records of Eskimo Curlews on the Labrador coast, 1770-1786, from George Cartwright's diary
		Figure 13 -- Eskimo Curlew habitat on grass, sedge and dryas "barrens" between Swan River and the Smoking Hills.
		The label for the Eskimo Curlew egg indicates that it is one of two collected on 23 June 1863--apparently a transcribing error because MacFarlane gave no such data.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/curlew (568 words)

	Eskimo Curlew
		The last verified record of an Eskimo Curlew was on Galveston Island in 1962.
		The Eskimo Curlew could easily be mistaken for a couple of other birds, the upland sandpiper or the whimbrel.
		The Eskimo curlew, at 12-14 inches, is a little bigger than the upland sandpiper with a flatter head and a down-curved bill.
	www.birdingamerica.com /eskimocurlew.htm (840 words)

	The Eskimo Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Eskimo curlew was original found in the arctic tundra of North America during the warm months of the breeding season and in the grasslands of South America in the winter.
		From 1870-1890, the Eskimo Curlew was hunted for food.
		The population rapidly declined; for example it has been recorded that 7,000 curlews were shot in one day on Nantucket Island in 1863.
	www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us /hhs/endspeci/Birds/ESKURLU.HTM (299 words)

	Eskimo Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The physical features of the Eskimo Curlew are that of a shorebird.
		The Eskimo Curlew is an average of 36 centimeters or 12 inches long.
		The Eskimo Curlew migrates through Kansas in the winter and is why it is categorized as an endangered species in this area.
	www.bv229.k12.ks.us /biophilia/wsc/prairieanimal/eskimocurlew.html (274 words)

	Watchable Wildlife - Curlew
		Known for its distinctive, slender bill (typically about eight inches long), the Curlew is pale brown and spotted with fl and dark-brown marks.
		The easily-recognized, far-reaching call: "cur-lee, curlee." Curlews nest on the open prairies in grass-lined depressions.
		There's a good chance you will see curlews if you stop at a riverside watering hole in eastern Montana.
	wildlife.visitmt.com /SongBirds/curlew.htm (113 words)

	B-Mail(sm): KSBIRD-L for Fri, 30 Aug 2002
		The principal food of = Eskimo Curlew on its northern migration was grasshopper eggs deposited = in the ground.
		The principal reason >given for Eskimo Curlew's failure to rebound is the plowing of the >Tallgrass Prairie in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, etc. through >which the curlews migrated in spring.
		The principal food of Eskimo Curlew on its northern >migration was grasshopper eggs deposited in the ground.
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/ksbirdl/200208/30 (2738 words)

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		Mounts of these four species are rare. Only 1,532 known Passenger Pigeon mounts, 720 Carolina Parakeet mounts, 413 Ivory-billed Woodpecker mounts and 365 Eskimo Curlew mounts still exist. The maintenance and presentation of these species is important in supporting the Indiana State Museum’s mission of interpreting and presenting material evidence of Indiana’s cultural and natural history.
		The same collector who sold the museum its Carolina Parakeet mount, donated an Eskimo Curlew mount that was missing both its feet.
		On day Lowe hopes to use the extinct and endangered collection to create a special exhibit that would address the causes of modern extinctions and present ways the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is re-introducing endangered species.
	www.state.in.us /ism/Newsroom/ALookattheCollection/loc_extinc.aspx (352 words)

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