Eskimo Curlew
A vanishing species?
Appendix 4
Current common names of birds referred to in the text*
Text Name Common Name American Golden Plover Lesser Golden-Plover Auntsary Greater Yellowlegs Bartramian Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Bartram's Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Bay Snipe Most shorebirds Beach Birds Shorebirds Beetle-heads Black-bellied Plover Black-breasted Plover Black-bellied Plover and Dunlin Black-duck American Black Duck Boatswain Jaeger Common Golden Plover Lesser Golden-Plover Eider (Franklin Bay) Common and King eiders Eider-duck (Labrador) Common Eider Golden Plover; Golden-Plover Lesser Golden-Plover Gray (Grey) Plover Black-bellied Plover Green Plover Lesser Golden-Plover Grouse Willow Ptarmigan Hudsonian Curlew Whimbrel Jack Curlew Whimbrel Lady Harlequin Duck (female) Large Beachbird Purple Sandpiper Large Curlew (Labrador) Whimbrel Longlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Migratory Pigeon Passenger Pigeon Pigeon (Pidgeon) Hawk Merlin Plover Lesser Golden-Plover (usually) Ptarmigan Rock Ptarmigan Red-bellied Snipe Short-billed Dowitcher Snipe Several species of shorebirds Spruce-game Spruce Grouse Summer Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Tattler Yellowlegs Tinamou Grouse-like birds, several species Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone Upland Plover Upland Sandpiper Whabby Red-throated Loon Wilson's Tern Common Tern Yellowlegs (Carriacou) Lesser Yellowlegs
*Based on Hapgood 1887, McAtee 1959, Townsend 1911 and American Ornithologists' Union 1983. Eskimo Curlew names are in Tables 3 and 4.
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