A rare eastern curlew visited the Whanganui estuary for a few days. A distinctive, globally-endangered bird was spotted in the Whanganui River estuary over New Year. Birds New Zealand Whanganui ...

A wildlife group is calling on the Federal Government to tighten the country's environment laws to help save a bird that migrates from as far as Siberia or Alaska each year from the brink of ...

As a globetrotter, few excel it. The bird spends its life shuttling between the hemispheres, winging its way through a perpetual summer. From southern Aust­ralia, where it feeds, to Siberia, where it ...

He made the remarks on the occasion of dedicating April 21st to World Curlew Day for the first time. There are 8 species of curlew in the world, 4 of which have been observed and reported in Iran, ...

While other migratory birds have become extinct, those commonly only spanned a single continent, making this particular extinction a major loss. The slender-billed curlew was declared extinct by the ...

Both Harry Saddler's earliest encounters with the migratory shorebirds of the title, on islands off Victoria, ended with the birds flying away. He's followed them ever since, in particular on the ...