A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.
Its slender bill is longer than its head and curves strongly downward; the plumage has cinnamon tones.
It probes the ground for food with its long bill and also uses coastal wetlands in winter.
The female chooses a scrape made by a male in dry, low vegetation and also helps shape it. Lined with pebbles, bark and plants, it holds four eggs. Incubation lasts 27–31 days; open-eyed, downy chicks can leave five hours after hatching.
It probes for earthworms and deep-burrowing shrimp and crabs. On drier grassland it pecks at grasshoppers, beetles, caterpillars and spiders.
The belly is pale cinnamon, with faint streaks on the head and neck and a pink base to the lower bill. The upperwings and underwings are strongly cinnamon in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.