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	AIMS eBooks - Cry of the Curlew
		Curlews can fight fiercely for various reasons, pinning the opponent to the ground, attacking it on the neck, the back, between the wings, or grabbing it by the tail and swirling it around.
		Curlews mainly inhabit lowland open forest, woodland and sandy creek beds but they are also on golf courses, in parks and many other locations.
		Curlew chicks can walk almost as soon as they hatch; and when the parents eat the tell-tale eggshells as a calcium supplement, the chicks are led away from the nest to a more protected area.
	www.aims.gov.au /pages/fauna/curlews/cotc.html (1411 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew
		Last of the Curlews is a Canadian novel, superbly written by Fred Bodsworth and stunningly illustrated by Terry Shortt.
		Through it, millions of people have become aware of the plight of an Eskimo Curlew as it spends a year of its life from the top to the bottom of the New World and back.
		When Veprintsev read Last of the Curlews in German, he wrote Bodsworth and asked on what he had based his description of the courtship rituals of the Eskimo Curlew, because they so closely resembled those of the Little Curlew.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/curlew/last.htm (412 words)

	Amazon.com: Last of the Curlews: Books: Fred Bodsworth,Abigail Rorer,W. S. Merwin,Murray Gell-Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		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 (1607 words)

	Last of the Curlews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Last of the Curlews is a novel, a fictionalized account of the life of the last Eskimo Curlew.
		It was written by Fred Bodsworth, a Canadian newspaper reporter and naturalist, and published in 1954.
		This page was last modified 21:40, 20 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_of_the_Curlews (219 words)

	The Nature Conservancy:
		Last month's Enviro-tips featured a list of the favorite environmental books by The Nature Conservancy, as well as an invitation for members of our Great Places Network to submit their own top green reads.
		This outstanding and heart-wrenching novel tells the tale of a lone male Eskimo curlew who searches for a mate at a time when his species is nearly extinct.
		Bodsworth vividly and moving presents the challenges of migration and survival for the curlew.
	support.nature.org /site/PageServer?pagename=envirotips_200610 (726 words)

	Eskimo Curlew
		The last verified record of an Eskimo Curlew was on Galveston Island in 1962.
		As with many shorebirds, particularly curlews, the Eskimo curlew exhibits a size dimorphism between sexes, with females averaging slightly larger.
		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)

	Last stone-curlews to be born at Normanton Down? - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Last stone-curlews to be born at Normanton Down?
		The RSPB is warning that a pair of stone-curlew chicks that have hatched at its Normanton Down nature reserve, near Stonehenge, could be the last to be raised there.
		The nest site lies directly in the path of the southern by-pass route, one of five possible options proposed in a review of A303 Stonehenge road improvements.
	www.rspb.org.uk /england/southwest/conservation/laststonies.asp (396 words)

	Last chance for Normanton Down stone-curlews - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Last chance for Normanton Down stone-curlews - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Stone-curlews have arrived back at the RSPB's Normanton Down nature reserve, near Stonehenge, and the charity is calling on people who love wildlife to help make sure it isn't the last time the rare birds breed at the site.
		The reserve is in the path of a proposed southern by-pass route for the A303, one of five possible options for the road, and the RSPB is urging people to respond to the public consultation before it closes on 24 April.
	www.rspb.org.uk /england/southwest/conservation/lastchance.asp (431 words)

	BSI Blog » Blog Archive » This is not migration
		Last year when I was in Deline I saw a few American Golden-Plovers winging south.
		They, like the Eskimo Curlew, were greatly decimated by unregulated hunting in the late 1800’s but somehow survived, although in greatly reduced abundance.
		Two-hundred and fifty years ago Chicago and its surrounds were wilderness—a wilderness stretching into 167 million acres of tallgrass prairie with bison herds in the millions and, in spring, flocks of Eskimo Curlews probing the moist earth for grasshopper eggs as they made their way north to nest.
	www.borealbirds.org /blog/?p=52 (1029 words)

	Eskimo Curlew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that Eskimo Curlews and American Golden-Plover were the most likely shorebirds to have attracted the attention of Christopher Columbus to nearby land after 65 days at sea out of sight of land on his first voyage.
		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.
		The last confirmed sightings were in 1962 on Galveston Island, Texas (photographed) and on Barbados in 1963 (specimen).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eskimo_Curlew (541 words)

	Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth, W. S. Merwin(Introduction), Murray Gell-Mann(Introduction), Abigail ...
		Last of the Curlews (New Canadian Library) (By FRED BODSWORTH)
		Last of the Curlews (By Fred Bodsworth,Abigail Rorer,W.S. Merwin,Murray Gell-Mann)
		Last of the Curlews (Edwin Way Teale Library of Na...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/1887178007.html (598 words)

	NOUs history (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Trying to summarize the history of a century of ornithology, by a person who has witnessed only the last forty years of it, is perhaps as difficult as it is to describe an elephant when only its retreating rear end has been seen.
		At the time the N.O.U. was formed the Eskimo Curlew was still a common migrant, and the Passenger Pigeon was still to be seen in small migrating flocks.
		One of the last Eskimo Curlews to be collected in North America was shot near Hastings, in April of 1915; it had once been avidly hunted by market hunters.
	rip.physics.unk.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /NOU/history.html (3616 words)

	Sandpipers
		I suppose that is a bit too metaphysical for some birders but it was, for example, essentially the premise of Last of the Curlews, the personalized and fictional story of the last Eskimo Curlew on earth (Bodsworth 1954).
		Little Curlew has one of the longest migration routes — from northeast Siberia to Australasia — and although it is not on the edge of extinction, its numbers are rather small (e.g., ~200,000; Piersma 1996).
		In truth, this photo documents one of the very few Little Curlews to reach North America, a vagrant bird that appeared in California during the autumns of 1984, 1988, 1993 (all of those years it visited the Santa Maria R. mouth in n.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/sandpipers.html (2692 words)

	Last of the Curlews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The new illustrated edition of Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth includes a foreword by Pultizer Prize-winning poet W.
		Wanton hunting and the destruction of habitat brought this graceful and once plentiful shorebird to the brink of extinction by the beginning of the twentieth century.
		The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species, and indeed for all in nature that is endangered.
	www.santafe.edu /sfi/People/mgm/whatsnew.html (165 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew: A vanishing species?
		Figure 2 -- Eskimo Curlew, Galveston Island, Texas, 1962.
		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/index.htm (568 words)

	Ambient: Soil Module
		The Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
		We love to go to her house on Saturday mornings because she makes the best poisson avec bananes (fish and plantains), and presents it in one of her wonderful ceramic bowls with colorful begonias painted on the bottom.
		Last time I saw her, she was expecting a baby.
	www.rsmas.miami.edu /groups/niehs/ambient/teacher/soil/Tsoil9.html (1381 words)

	Amazon.co.uk Books: Curlews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Last of the Curlews (The Edwin Way Teale Library of Nature Classics) by Fred Bodsworth (Hardcover - Dec 1987)
		Curlews on the Continent by Gerald Roland Lyttle (Unknown Binding - 1962)
		Last of the Curlews by Bodsworth (Hardcover - 31 Oct 1995)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Curlews&tag=newintown-21&index=books-uk&link_code=qs&page=1 (209 words)

	The Lantern Books Blog: Lantern Books 2005 Essay Contest Runner-Up, Jerry Davis
		Being as young as I was, I thought all curlews were the same, and I didn’t pay attention to what type of curlew the show was about.
		But the birds in the Idaho desert are long-billed curlews (a different species than the eskimo curlew, which are actually quite common), where they nest in the wide-open sagebrush flats.
		The curlews and meadowlarks continued to sing, and the hawks gracefully patrolled the skies, but there is money to be made in this world.
	www.lanternbooks.com /blog/entry.php?id=185 (1410 words)

	OFO - OFO Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Atlas will be the basis for breeding bird conservation and research for decades to come.
		Last of the Curlews: Glenn Coady congratulates Fred Bodsworth on his award winning book "Last of the Curlews".
		Shivering in the Cold: Ross James explains that shivering in birds is an adaptation to keeping warm in the cold.
	www.ofo.ca /ofonews200502.htm (404 words)

	ABC After School Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		By the end there were two but then one was shot by a hunter and the last one flew away as the narrator said, "First there were many, then there were two, now there is one, soon there will be none." How I cried.
		The peak by far was when the cartoon character Timer, who many people will know from Saturday mornings hankering for a hunka cheese and making wagon wheels and stacks of snacks, journeyed with two children through the body of their Archie Bunker type uncle.
		The hard part for ABC was creating stories that appealed to such a diverse audience--the difference between entertainment for a 9 year old couch potato and entertainment for a fifteen year old couch potato is extreme.
	www.jumptheshark.com /a/abcafterschoolspecial.htm (5354 words)

	CM Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bodsworth's classic story of one of the last of a dying species, first published in 1955 and reprinted in a New Canadian Library edition in 1963, has been reissued with a new afterword by Graeme Gibson.
		.Excerpts from scientific reports, documenting the decline of the Eskimo curlew over nearly two centuries, show clearly that human greed and thoughtlessness led to its extinction.
		This poignant illustration that we are living, as Graeme Gibson writes, in an "Age of Extinctions" does occasionally slip into anthropomorphism, but perhaps that is what is needed.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol20no1/curlews.html (161 words)

	English Language Arts 10 Bibliography: L Titles
		This is the moving story of one Eskimo curlew's flight from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again.
		The death of his mate humanizes and dramatically illustrates the threats by hunters and by the changing environment that are factors in the bird's near-extinction.
		Aided by Bedwyr, the last of Arthur's knights, Irion hopes to succeed, not only in fighting the Saxons, but also in battling the distrust that his soldiers feel for him as the son of Medraut.
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /curr_inst/iru/bibs/xela/t-dl.html (2970 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew
		NORTH ATLANTIC STRAGGLERS: There is evidence that 13 Eskimo Curlews have been at various times carried by autumn storms to Greenland, Iceland, Ireland and Great Britain (Map 3).
		Ridgway (1919:413) lists Iceland based on a report by Kjaerbolling, published in 1854 (which we have not seen).
		The stragglers were able to find habitat and food similar to what they used in part of North America.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/curlew/north.htm (249 words)

	Christopher Columbus (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ferdinand and Isabella had just conquered Granada, the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, and they received Columbus in Córdoba (in the monarchs' Alcázar or castle).
		A comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that the birds were Eskimo curlews and American golden plover.
		He claimed to hear divine voices, lobbied for a New crusade to capture Jerusalem, often wore Franciscan habit, and described his discoveries of the "paradise" as part of God's plan which would soon result in the Last Judgement and the end of the world.
	christopher-columbus.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (5872 words)

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	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for July 1-6, 2002
		The recent acceptance of Britain's first record, based on a first-summer bird discovered by Tim Cleeves in 1998, provides new hope for the survival of the species.
		The simple fact that the latest sighting of Slender-billed Curlew involves a young bird provide real food for optimism.
		Along this vein, it might be prudent for birders in North and South America to build and circulate a clear picture of how to identify first-summer Eskimo Curlews in the hope of a similar discovery.....................
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200207/w1 (2062 words)

	Last of the Curlews 2e PB by Fred Bodsworth and T. M. Shortt and Abigail Rorer : Booksamillion.com (1887178252, ...
		Last of the Curlews 2e PB by Fred Bodsworth and T. Shortt and Abigail Rorer : Booksamillion.com (1887178252, Paperback)
		More than three million readers around the world have been touched by this conservation classic, the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's last perilous migration and search for a mate.
		The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?isbn=1887178252 (84 words)

	Ranchers.net's Bull Session :: Clarence... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I haven't seen any curlews yet this year, Nor any kildeer, Kildeer are usually here long before this time.
		The last couple of days I have been hearing the call of a bird that I don't think I recognize.
		I saw the first curlews here yesterday, the robins a few days ago and everything is broke down.
	ranchers.net /forum/about9209.html (276 words)

	LROS Latest Bird News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Curlew Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 14 Ruff, 3 Curlew, Peregrine and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls on Lagoon I. Juvenile Arctic Tern and male Red-crested Pochard on Lagoon III, plus Peregrine and 5 Buzzards over.
		Last seen around 16.00, flying to the west end of the mound where it appeared to land but could not be relocated until dark.
		Also around the reserve, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Greenshank, Grey Plover, 6 Black-tailed Godwits, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Curlews, 4 Green Sandpipers and a male Red-crested Pochard.
	www.lros.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /News.htm (724 words)

	The Last of the Curlews (1972) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I never saw the rest of the Afterschool Specials.
		However, "The Last Of The Curlews" was really special for me at the time.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Last of the Curlews (1972) (TV)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0305748 (281 words)

	1972-1973 TV Season
		The first in the series was The Last of the Curlews, an animated nature docu-drama from Hanna-Barbera.
		When the show returned for one last season, Dr. Rhodes was suddenly using his powers of ESP and becoming more super-heroic while the plots became more fantastic in an unsuccessful attempt to attract a wider audience.
		Screen legend Joan Crawford played her last television role in the September 30th episode of The Sixth Sense, "Dear Joan, We're Going To Scare You To Death." Gary Collins went on to host PM Magazine.
	www.tvparty.com /70fall72-2.html (1895 words)

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