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 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 ...

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 ...