Long-Billed Curlew

• Size: 19.7-25.6" long // 24.4-35" wingspan
• Diet: insects, marine crustaceans, and bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates
• Seasonal Habits: Migrate in winter
• Temperament: Not Aggressive

North America's largest shorebird, the Long-billed Curlew, is a graceful creature with an almost impossibly long, thin, and curved bill. This speckled, cinnamon-washed shorebird probes deep into mud and sand for aquatic invertebrates on its coastal wintering grounds and picks up grasshoppers on the breeding grounds. It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches.