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Long-billed Curlew

Numenius americanus ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Long-billed Curlew Photo

© William L. Newton / CLO

North America's largest shorebird, the Long-billed Curlew breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin.

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Calls

  • Calls, Flight
    Recorded by Randolph Scott Little, Warren Y. Brockelman, Robert C. Stein, Randolph Scott Little
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a harsh whistled "cur-lee," rising on second note. Also rapid whistled "kli-li-li-li."

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