In Popular Culture
The plight of this bird inspired the novel (and subsequent Emmy Award winning 1972 ABC Afterschool Special) Last of the Curlews.
The Esquimaux Curlew (sic) appears as plate CCCLVII of Audubon's Birds of America.
In the 1950s the Eskimo Curlew was a subject of the Mark Trail comic strip by Ed Dodd and Mike Judge.
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