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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

After being hunted to nearextinction the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to the nesting grounds ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the last documented sighting of the Eskimo Curlew ... of South America when nesting ended. The curlew, one of eight species in its family, as numerous ...

The Last Curlew follows the 13,000 km migration of a lone, critically endangered Eskimo Curlew in search of a mate. Music by Alexine Louie, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and R. Murray Schafer.