Long-billed Curlew Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A recent sunny day at Bunny Meadows wasn’t so tranquil for this ill-fated crab 🦀 Ranger Tony spotted the curlew using its sensitive, down-curved bill to probe seaweed, mud and shallow water for invertebrates. Once it's found its prey, it deftly snips off each leg before swallowing the de-legged body in one go. You can then see it begin to pick out all the snipped legs that have dropped into the shallow water – it doesn't want to waste even a tiny morsel. We love the sounds of wigeons and curlew

The race is on to save one of the most incredible birds in the world ⏰Imagine flying to Siberia to lay your eggs, then flying all the way back to Brisbane's wetlands to find your home destroyed? That's what the Eastern Curlew is facing, unless we stand up against its extinction ✊ | Australian Conservation Foundation

Curlew conservation update 📢 Over the past four years, we’ve successfully released 107 curlew onto Dartmoor, and we have one more year to go in this five-year project. This work began in 2019 when the Duchy of Cornwall approached us to look at the possibility of headstarting curlew using eggs collected under license from RAF Airbases. Our headstarted curlew have now been spotted in estuaries in Spain and Portugal! We're hoping they'll make their way back over to Dartmoor to start families of th