The Eskimo curlew ... The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris), which once ranged from Canada to Japan, is currently listed as Critically Endangered with the last confirmed sighting ...

The last reliable sighting of an Eskimo curlew was by noted Texas bird expert John Arvin, who saw one flying over Sabine Pass in April 1987, according to "Birdlife of Houston, Galveston ...

The sculpture used in the prank was the first Eskimo curlew he carved, but he has since made another one, of a curlew in ... in the voice of the bird, "The Last Eskimo Curlew" by Fred Bosworth ...

A 6-foot bronze sculpture of the Eskimo curlew, which is likely extinct ... A huge flock would circle over one of their members felled by gunshot. Such caring behavior made the birds easy targets ...

The bird was a dead ringer for the Eskimo curlew, a species last verifiably seen in 1962, when one was photographed along a beach at Galveston, Texas. The same pictures went by email to more than ...

If you were asked to identify one of this continent’s extinct ... A few remained, but the last confirmed sighting of the Eskimo curlew was in 1963.