eskimo curlew in English

noun
1
a small New World curlew with a striped head, formerly common in the arctic tundra but now close to extinction.
Two of the rarest migratory species in Alaska's national parks are the short-tailed albatross and the Eskimo curlew , both endangered.

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1. Eskimo Curlew – Our second species on the brink is the Eskimo Curlew

2. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory- billed woodpecker, for the Eskimo curlew, for the Caribbean monk seal, for the woolly mammoth.

3. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker, for the Eskimo curlew, for the Caribbean monk seal, for the woolly mammoth.

4. Indeed, two species of Curlew may already be extinct; the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris, last spotted with confidence in 1995, which once migrated between the Mediterranean Basin and its breeding grounds in Siberia; and the Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis, which once travelled between Canada and South America, and is almost certainly a goner, having not been seen with certainty