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Curlew Long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) Fishing Pier, ... (Bartramia longicauda) is an odd bird which is the closest relative of the curlews. [2]
The long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae. This species was also called "sicklebird" [ 2 ] and the "candlestick bird". The species breeds in central and western North America, migrating southward and coastward for the winter.
The species name arquata is the Medieval Latin name for this bird, derived from Latin arcuatus, "bow-shaped", and again referring to the shape of the bill. [5] The English name "curlew" is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger", from courir , "to run".
The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis), also known as northern curlew, is a species of curlew in the family Scolopacidae. It was one of the most numerous shorebirds in the tundra of western Arctic Canada and Alaska. Thousands of birds were then killed per year in the late 1800s.
The Eurasian stone-curlew is a fairly large wader, though mid-sized by the standards of its family.Length ranges from 38 to 46 cm (15 to 18 in), wingspan from 76 to 88 cm (30 to 35 in) and weight from 290 to 535 g (10.2 to 18.9 oz).
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 . It is closely related to the North American Eskimo curlew .
With common bird populations on the decline, these birds are “the canary in the coal mine,” said Ken Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist emeritus at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...
The face has a striking black and white pattern, and the bill is black with a yellow base. The eyes are bright yellow and the legs a duller greenish-yellow. In flight, the great thick-knee shows black and white flight feathers on the upperwing, and a mainly white underwing. Sexes are similar, but young birds are slightly paler than adults.