Dean M. Chriss
Photography
Long Billed Curlew, Seafood Dinner

Long Billed Curlew, Seafood Dinner

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The long billed curlew is America's largest shore bird. They breed in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basins. In winter some, like the one shown in the photograph above, migrate to the coasts where they eat marine crustaceans, invertebrates, and insects along tidal flats.