DCHP-3

Hudsonian curlew

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a short-billed curlew, Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus, that breeds in northern Canada.

Quotations

1890
Hudsonian Curlew . . . is by no means rare in the "Barrens" to the west of the lower Anderson, where the Esquimaux discovered some thirteen well identified nests with eggs.
1952
. . . I was startled by a series of loud, wild "tit-tit-tit-tit-tit" notes from a big brown bird which leapt into the air a few feet in front. A Hudsonian curlew of course.