It’s World Curlew Day!

Far eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis). 

SciArt from John Gould’s Birds of Australia, Vol. 6 (1848).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Romances of the Wild. Written by H. Mortimer Batten. Illustrated by Warwick Reynolds. 1959.