Long-billed Curlew

Description:

Long-legged, curved-bill birds with feathers something greyish. These birds were always in packs, often mixing with gulls and other birds on the sand (though still staying in pockets of their own species).

Habitat:

These birds alternated between the sand on the beach - usually chasing the tide back and forth as they dug in the surf for food - and the giant estuary behind the peninsula that filled at high tide and ran nearly dry at low tide.