A long-billed curlew was poached in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area southwest of Boise on June 1. The death means seven of 16 birds fitted with transmitters by ...

Range: The bird often nests in the Great Basin and the Great Plains, and winters from the Caribbean through Mexico and west to California. Size: Adults weigh about 2.2 pounds and have a wingspan of 24 ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another one.

Long-billed curlew are shorebirds that spend their summers breeding in the grasslands of Montana. Smithsonian ecologists are equipping them with GPS trackers to learn more about their movements. Andy ...

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It is the call of the curlew rather than its appearance that is most entangled with our collective memory of trips to the bog or the sounds of summer in the Irish countryside. That distinctive ...

The Curlew is a regular winter visitor to our countryside and flocks of these long-billed birds may often be seen at this time of year in damp pastures and in coastal areas all over Ireland. Our local ...

Ireland should restrict afforestation, recreate peatlands and wetlands and safeguard bogs to protect the endangered curlew bird, a report has recommended. On Friday, the curlew task force published a ...

When a wintering bird doubles back to its breeding grounds to attend to the visceral business of procreation, it becomes essentially “unreachable” for the human friends it has made in its wintering ...