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 ...

BOWMAN COUNTY, N.D. — There’s a stretch of Kim Shade’s ranch in the North Dakota Badlands where he used to look for a peculiar long-billed bird from the seat of his saddle. Now, all he sees there is a ...

While other migratory birds have become extinct, those commonly only spanned a single continent, making this particular extinction a major loss. The slender-billed curlew was declared extinct by the ...

For decades, the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory wetland bird with a long, arched bill, has evaded detection, prompting speculation about whether the species is still out there. Now, ...

This estate is for the birds—literally. This week, Prince Charles and nonprofit Natural England’s Chair, Tony Juniper, released baby Eurasian curlew birds on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Estate. The ...

The carving of the Eskimo curlew used as an "April Fowl's" prank was made by Dean Hurliman of Burlington, Iowa. Hurliman once carved duck decoys to be placed as decorative items on fireplace mantels, ...

A small type of curlew bird may be disappearing in the Darwin region, a PhD researcher says. The little curlew's possible disappearance follows wider fears about the decline of migratory shorebirds in ...

This estate is for the birds—literally. This week, Prince Charles and nonprofit Natural England’s Chair, Tony Juniper, released baby Eurasian curlew birds on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Estate. The ...