Long-billed Curlew | Audubon Field Guide - National Audubon …
This incredibly long-billed sandpiper is the largest of our shorebirds; but more often than not, it is seen away from the shore. It spends the summer on the grasslands of the arid west, appearing on coastal mudflats only in migration and winter, and even then likely to be on prairies instead.
Long-billed Curlew - All About Birds
It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches. The silhouette of the Long-billed Curlew is unmistakable: whether standing in a shortgrass prairie or in a tidal mudflat, these birds stand out.
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Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed curlews winter from California, into west-ern Nevada, Arizona, eastern New Mexico, western and southern Texas, and coastal Louisiana south to Baja, California, and Guatemala. Wintering curlews are found in small numbers along the …
Long-billed Curlew - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Long-billed curlew is a large, long-legged shorebird with a very long, decurved bill. Body plumage is rich buff throughout tinged with cinnamon or pink, and with upperparts streaked and barred with dark brown; underwing-lining contrasting cinnamon, and upper surface of remiges contrasting orange-brown.
Long-billed Curlew - American Bird Conservancy
The Long-billed Curlew breeds on the wide grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin of the western United States and southwestern Canada. It's one of the earliest breeding shorebirds, returning from wintering grounds by mid-March.
Long-Billed Curlew - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ... - Animalia
The long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae. This species was also called "sicklebird" and the "candlestick bird". The species breeds in central and western North America, migrating southward and coastward for the winter.
Long-billed curlew - Wikipedia
Long-billed curlews courting. The breeding habitat is grasslands in west-central North America. The species displays an elaborate courtship dance, with fast and looping display flights also being common. A small hollow is lined with various weeds and grasses to serve as the nest.
Long-billed Curlew Identification - All About Birds
On drier grassland habitats, pecks at insects. Walks with a strut, pushing its head forward with jerky steps. Breeds in areas with sparse, short grasses, including shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies as well as agricultural fields.
Long-billed Curlew Life History - All About Birds
Long-billed Curlews eat insects, marine crustaceans, and bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates. The remarkably long, downcurved bill allows curlews to forage for earthworms and other deep-burrowing prey such as shrimp and crabs.
Species Profile: Long-billed Curlew - Smithsonian's National Zoo
Long-billed curlews spend their winters along the Pacific, Gulf and southeastern coasts of the United States and in coastal and interior Mexico. Their habitat and diet can be quite different than it is during the breeding season. In the winter, they can be found mostly in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats and flooded fields.
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