Long-billed curlews are North America's largest shorebird. These distinctive birds can be found in North Dakota for about two months each year during nesting season. Because they are in decline across their range, researchers are capturing and fitting some of these birds with transmitters to learn more about their habitat use, migration and hopefully help determine what factors are driving the population loss. Learn more in this week's North Dakota Outdoors webcast. | North Dakota Game and Fish

One last post about our Bird of the Week, the Long-billed Curlew, before we change out our species on Friday! Thanks to its extra-long bill, the curlew easily picks off prey, from mollusks and crabs to grasshoppers and beetles. These birds even reach down wolf spider burrows to find a tasty item or two. Find out more: https://abcbirds.org/bird/long-billed-curlew/ #ABCBOTW | American Bird Conservancy

The Department has been partnering with two other conservation organizations on a study of long-billed curlew habitat use. Learn more about this study and these remarkable grassland birds in this week’s North Dakota Outdoors webcast. | North Dakota Game and Fish Department

Long billed Curlew and chick (Numenius americanus) | BIRDS & Nature

For many shorebirds like the Long-billed Curlew, the seashore is a source of food, a restful stopover on a long migratory journey, and often a place to nest and raise their chicks right there on the sand. Draw your own bird with illustrator and ornithologist, David Allen Sibley. | National Audubon Society

Check out our team in British Columbia as they track the Long-billed Curlew. The range of the curlew in BC is shifting as the birds adapt to landscapes being altered by humans. Tracking their presence is a crucial and thoroughly enjoyable aspect of the field work we do! #fieldwork #biology #ornithology #birdscanadainaction #birdscanada #fieldresearch | Birds Canada