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		Its closest ally, the little curlew (Numenius minutus), is territorial on the breeding grounds and nests in "colonies" (09).
		29 Carroll, W.J. The Eskimo curlew or doughbird.
		The migration and mortality of the curlew in Britian and Ireland.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e107003.htm (3883 words)

	Curlew
		The curlews are a group of 8 wading bird species, characterised by a long slender downcurved bill and mainly brown plumage with little seasonal change.
		Curlews feed on mud or very soft ground, searching for worms and other invertebrates their long bills.
		The Upland Sandpiper[?] is an odd bird which appears to be closely related to the curlews.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cu/Curlew.html (79 words)

	NPWRC :: Eskimo Curlew
		Peterson's standing Eskimo Curlew is partly hidden by a Whimbrel and his Eskimo underwing lining, i.e., excluding primaries and secondaries, is incorrectly shown as unbarred.
		(28 and 35.5 cm) for Eskimo Curlew and Whimbrel, respectively, from tip of bill to tip of tail for birds "hand-held in natural positions." As a general rule they state that individual birds may be 10% longer or shorter than this average.
		A "good" identification of an Eskimo Curlew is facilitated by familiarity or field comparison with Whimbrels (and other shorebirds) for length, bulk and bill, and by careful attention to the underwing - the lack of barring on the primaries and the cinnamon wing lining.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/curlew/identif.htm (770 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)

	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.
		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.
		A Eurasian curlew shot in England was discovered to be thirty-two years of age, as it was banded as a chick and still wore the band (Austin (1967) in Gollop, 1978).
	biology.mcgill.ca /undergra/c465a/biodiver/2002/eskimo-curlew/eskimo-curlew.htm (5147 words)

	sociology - Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	eBird \|\| Texas's destination for birding on the Web
		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 Little Curlew the central head stripe is narrow, white or buff, and pale.
		In the Little Curlew, the base of the lower mandible is flesh colored or pink for more than half its length.
	www.ebird.org /TX/news/EskimoCurlew.html (3327 words)

	Little Curlew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae.
		It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia.
		This is a tiny curlew, not as large as a Golden Plover, but unmistakably a member of that group of waders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Curlew (211 words)

	Little Curlew - Whatbird.com
		Little Curlew: Medium-sized curlew with brown-streaked upperparts, white throat, dark-streaked gray breast, and white belly.
		Little Curlew: Very rare species; breeds in central and northeast Siberia and winters mainly in northern Australia; casual fall vagrant to coastal California.
		● Breeding and nesting: Little Curlew: Three to four pale olive-brown eggs are laid in a ground depression lined with dry grass.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/443/_/Little_Curlew.aspx (788 words)

	Casa Rosa Birding Locations
		Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff and Spotted Redshank are among the many species of wader to be seen here in autumn, Black Tern is regular and raptors such as Red Kite, Short-toed and Booted Eagle pass through.
		Little Buttonquail (Andalusian Hemipode) has been reported from the area but the true status of this extremely rare and very elusive bird in the area is unknown.
		A little way along the donkey trail 14 Cattle Egrets were feeding on grasshoppers, Woodchat Shrikes showed well from their perches.
	www.casarosa.net /locations.htm (2828 words)

	Top End Birds - Little Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Little Curlew arrive in the Top End during the latter part of September.
		Whilst there are records of huge numbers in some areas (up to 100 000 were reported in the Fogg Dam area one year), there are rarely more than a few thousand spread out around the swamplands and grasslands in the Darwin area.
		There are very few records in the Darwin region after December, and it is assumed that they move back north through the north-west of Western Australia, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, to the east..
	nt.ozbirder.com /pages/littlecurlew.htm (125 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)

	Eastern Australia top to bottom
		This is a seriously sexy little bird and we were surprised to have it so active in the mid-afternoon heat.
		These dainty little guys may only come out for very short periods, but when you get a view, you just can't believe how cute they are.
		A little further along the road we stopped at a flooded field on what was once a billabong, where we had great looks at Yellow-billed Spoonbill, a male Musk Duck and our first Red-kneed Dotterel.
	www.tropicalbirding.com /tripReports/TR_Eastern_Aus_Nov05.html (4812 words)

	NWT Wildlife and Fisheries - Eskimo Curlew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Eskimo Curlew is one of the most elusive birds in North America.
		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)

	A YEAR ON THE WING - an online documentary \| LEARNING & DOING
		The Eastern Curlew breeds in Far Eastern Russia, inland on the boggy plains of the upper reaches of the Amur River and on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
		The Eastern Curlew generally lay 4 eggs that are olive green in colour with fl and brown speckles.
		The Eastern Curlew is a shy or wary bird, often seen pacing the shoreline probing the soft mud for food.
	www.abc.net.au /wing/community/learningbirdinfo.htm (1855 words)

	Sandpipers
		It shows an adult Little Curlew — the closest relative to Eskimo Curlew left on earth — standing on a beach and apparently contemplating its next long flight over the crashing surf and endless Pacific Ocean to its final destination.
		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.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/sandpipers.html (2692 words)

	Donana Bird Tours - ARCHIVED TRIP REPORTS. MAY 2005
		This is their first time in Donana so we spent the first day visiting some of the sites and centres in the southern part of the region.
		Elsewhere on the marshes we saw Curlews, Whimbrels, Purple Herons, Red Knots, Ruddy Turnstones, Kentish and Grey Plovers, Sandwich, Little and Black Terns, Audouin's Gulls, Collared Pratincoles and Northern Wheatears.
		At the Isla Mayor and the Dehesa de Abajo we saw Little and Cattle Egrets, Squacco Herons, Purple Swamp-hens, Black-winged Stilts, Avocets, Little Grebes a Mute Swan, a little Owl and both Whiskered and Gull-billed Terns.
	www.donanabirdtours.com /cgi-bin/web.asp?pageid=50 (1127 words)

	Little Curlew - Definition, explanation
		The Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae.
		It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia.
		This is a tiny curlew, not as large as a Golden Plover, but unmistakably a member of that group of waders.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/l/li/little_curlew.php (183 words)

	Eskimo Curlew
		borealis is the smallest of the North American curlews and only slightly larger than the little curlew (N. minutus), itself the smallest member of the genus and the only species likely to be confused with N. borealis.
		At least two sources consider these two species of curlews to be conspecific, but most others recognize each as monotypic.
		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)

	OCCURRENCE OF MIGRANT SHOREBIRDS IN THE MARIANA ISLANDS
		The remaining islands in the chain are much smaller (1-48 km 2) and, except for rocky shores, a short airstrip, some open fields and two brackish lakes, their steep volcanic terrain offers little appropriate habitat for shorebirds.
		DISCUSSION Islands in Micronesia offer little habitat for most species of migrating and wintering shorebirds due to their small sizes, typically narrow inter- tidal zones, and lack of extensive mudflats (Parish et al.
		Overall abundance.--Turnover rates among migrant shorebirds in the Marianas have never been assessed with marked birds, so it is difficult to estimate the numbers of birds passing through or wintering in the islands.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v068n01/p0042-p0055.html (10016 words)

	Latest Bird Sightings - Dee Estuary
		2 Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Little Stint, 5 Ruff and 1 Peregrine Falcon - Burton Marsh.
		3 Peregrine Falcon, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Curlew Sandpiper and 5 Gannet - Hoylake Shore.
		2 Little Egret, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Little Stint, 1 Ruff and 8 Black-tailed Godwit - Inner Marsh Farm.
	www.deeestuary.co.uk /lausep01.htm (2748 words)

	Customised Birdwatching Tours
		Little Gull, Mediterranean Gull and a Sandwich Tern were seen.
		Very few passerines were seen though a adult Little Gull on the golf course and a Greenshank flying westwards was of interest.
		Little seemed to be in the scrub and the south east wind and rain made birding difficult.
	www.birdtour.co.uk /asp/newsletter.asp (15057 words)

	Shorebirds of the Yellow Sea: 4. Shorebirds Occuring in Internationally Important Numbers at Yellow Sea Sites
		The shorebirds using the Yellow Sea have breeding ranges which are spread across a wide area ranging from the Taimyr Peninsula, in central north Siberia, eastwards to the Russian Far East and Alaska, and southwards to Mongolia, northern China and the Yellow Sea, itself.
		Eurasian Curlew, Eastern Curlew, Grey Plover and Kentish Plover).
		Approximately 80% of the estimated flyway population of the Eastern Curlew uses the Yellow Sea on northward migration and 40% of the Asian Dowitcher.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/migratory/waterbirds/yellow-sea/chapter4.html (2047 words)

	Curlew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills (Thomas, 2004).
		Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (critically endangered, possibly extinct)
		The Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicaudia) is an odd bird which is the closest relative of the curlews (Thomas, 2004).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curlew (307 words)

	Curlew Washington
		The curlews are a group of eight wader species, characterised by a long slenderdowncurved bill and mainly brown plumage with little seasonal change.
		The Upland Sandpiper is an odd bird which is closely related tothe 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.altvetmed.com /face/38632-curlew-washington.html (391 words)

	Feathers, Flyways and Friends - Shorebird Education Australia
		Most curlews are darkish brown and have a dark line over their eye.
		Curlews have a distinctive call, making a loud ‘curlee’ followed by a falling ‘carr-er’.
		It is thought that the call gave rise to the name of this group of distinctive shorebirds.
	www.wetlands.org.au /shorebirds/identification.htm (512 words)

	Mike's Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Curlew Caper Concludes
		Because there were no real Eskimo Curlews to photograph, only Whimbrels and one photographer with access to a specimen and knowledge of the techniques of photo manipulation.
		I challenge you to download pictures of the Little Curlew off of a Google search and use the photo editor to change them to fl and white.
		Blur them a little if you like and then save them in a folder with the Eskimo Curlew pictures on the computer.
	www.birddigiscoping.com /2006/02/curlew-caper-concludes.html (1016 words)

	curlew \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Curlew is the common name for the bird genus Numenius, a group of eight wader species, characterised by a long slender downcurved bill and mainly brown plumage with little seasonal change.
		They one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills (Thomas, 2004).
		In Europe "Curlew" usually refers to one species, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata.
	www.babylon.com /definition/curlew/All (271 words)

	Birding in London - Bird news July 2004
		Curlew Sandpiper (2), Black-tailed Godwit (3) and Mediterranean Gull
		- Oystercatcher, Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit (6) and Turnstone Tyttenhanger GP - Little Egret and Turnstone (4)
		Rainham Marshes - Little Egret (14) and Black-tailed Godwit
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /calidris/birdnewsJuly04.htm (622 words)

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