Texas Fauna Project

Eskimo Curlew

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Ben Feltner is an accomplished birder and nature guide. He founded two ecotourism firms (Merlin Birding Tours, and Peregrine Birding Tours), and established several Audubon bird counts, including ones in El Naranjo, Catemaco, and Teziutlan in Mexico. Here he describes his 1959 visit to west Galveston Island, where he rediscovered the extremely rare, possibly now-extinct, Eskimo curlew.