The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

GRAND FORKS – A long-billed curlew jumped out of my mailbox last week – not the bird itself, of course. Long-billed curlews haven’t been seen in Grand Forks County in 100 years. This was a picture of ...

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis) was a grassland species of shore bird in the sandpiper family. This curlew had warm brown or cinnamon colored feathers with white speckles. Its primary wing ...

A flock of curlews has been released into the wild at a nature reserve in Kent as part of a major conservation effort to restore populations of one of the UK's most threatened wading birds.