The penetrating whistle came clearly but not a glimpse of the birds could I see. At last, thru the "blind" bushes, far off over the sand dunes, I saw the flock.
I answered and waited — would they hear and head toward the decoys? Yes, there they came but the outfit was suspicious — they suddenly put the set wings into vibration and went on southward. But on momentous days a lone "Jack" was lured within range and its form duly made into a "skin" and properly tagged.
HUDSONIAN CURLEWS are by far the most numerous of the genus, owing to their inaccessible breeding grounds, wariness and general all-around capacity to take care of themselves. Bent found hundreds on the South Carolina coast in May, 1915, and Job saw thousands there in 1905.
North and South America. Breeds on the Arctic coast from Alaska to Mackenzie.