Tag Archives: Long-billed Curlew

Bird beaks come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, from the petite to the preposterous. Well, sitting out there on the preposterous end of the spectrum is the Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus). These little guys are shore birds. They spend their days wandering the tidal zone, using their exceptionally long beaks to probeContinue reading “Bird 169 – Long-billed Curlew”