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 ...

The warbling call of the curlew has returned to Trasna Island in Lower Lough Erne. Conservationists are celebrating the first successful breeding birds on the island in living memory. RSPB (NI) ...

A landmark conservation initiative aimed at saving the iconic curlew from extinction in Ireland has been launched on an ...

Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it? Calling the Curlew Home is the Lyric Feature this Sunday at 6 pm Below, ...

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 ...

Curlew researchers once depended on leg tags to identify birds and understand their migrations Drones have been buzzing over Welsh wetlands this year as researchers try to find curlew nests and save ...

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 ...

The Eskimo curlew is (or perhaps, ‘was’) a small migratory shorebird with a long curved beak, perfect for searching shorelines and prairie grass for worms, grasshoppers and other insects, as well as ...

Its melancholic, haunting warble can be heard for miles – even across the most blustery wind. But the distinctive curlew, once a common sound on Britain’s moors and coasts, is one of our most ...

Hollinsclough, Staffordshire: A fox has forced a pair into the air as it snuffles for eggs, and they treat us to remarkable array of vocalisations In 40 years of attending to nature in print, I’ve ...