“I used to see quite a few of them,” the cowboy said, of the speckled, chicken-size bird called a long-billed curlew. The curlew’s absence is unsettling, he said. “Our birds on the prairie ...

Long-billed curlew are shorebirds that spend their summers ... the largest shorebirds in North America — about the size of a chicken, but with an impossibly long bill and infinitely more elegance.

A Kent nature reserve is playing a key role in efforts to revive southern England's dwindling curlew population. Thirty-nine ...

A chick? No, a horned lark ... reminding me why I live a bird-filled life. A long-billed curlew in the upland habitat near the shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Credit: Mary Anne Karren ...

A long-billed curlew was poached in the Morley Nelson Snake ... The male and female alternate sitting on the nest. The chicks quickly leave the nest after hatching.

Crops like alfalfa provide critical habitat for the Long-billed Curlew, the largest shorebird in North America and a species of continental conservation concern. As the drought continues, mirroring ...

We often come across other bird species as well. For instance, the long-billed curlew. Long-billed curlews are classified as being the largest shorebird in North America. They migrate from their ...