 Curlew Large shore bird of both hemispheres , the color is generally brown, with a curved bill, the long billed curlew , its bill almost one-third the body length ( 2 ft. ) is now rare in the Eastern United States; its mainly lives in salt marshes , prairies, and tidal creeks in the West.
During the summer it feasts on locusts and other injurious insects . The Hudsonian and the nearly extinct Eskimo curlews migrate from Arctic breeding grounds to South America. The bristle thighed curlew summers and nests in Alaska and winters on South Pacific islands some of the godwits and ibses are called curlews . | 
