Eskimo curlew
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Eskimo curlew
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The Eskimo curlew once migrated over Ohio on its way from South America to parts of Canada and Alaska.
From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2018
The less numerous Labrador duck and Eskimo curlew suffered the same fate.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2016
Today, the picture has a further elegiac dimension: The Eskimo curlew is now extinct.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2014
Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew.
From Time Magazine Archive
Illinois: Passenger pigeon, whooping crane, Carolina parrakeet, trumpeter swan, snowy egret, Eskimo curlew; bison, elk, white-tailed deer, black bear, puma, Canada lynx.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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