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 ...
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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 high-pitched, staccato whistle rang out across the shore. To Bruce Beehler’s teenage ears, the sound was unfamiliar. It was 1969, and he stood with his mom along the rocky coast of Maine visiting a ...
Long-billed curlews are a species of conservation priority in North Dakota because their population has declined. In this week’s segment of “North Dakota Outdoors,” Mike Anderson of the North Dakota ...