The park also has a variety of rare and endangered species such as the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Bush Stone-curlew and Brush-tailed Bettong.
HMAS Curlew was a Ton-class minesweeper, launched in 1953 as HMS Montrose, renamed HMS Chediston in 1958 and then HMAS Curlew on her transfer to the Royal Australian Navy in 1962.
The landscape supports large numbers of moorland birds such as the Golden Plover, Red Grouse, Curlew and Twite.
Pregan Island, a grassy space between the lagoon and the river, was reserved for the 'guriban', or bush-stone Curlew.
Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include Brown Treecreepers, Speckled Warblers, Hooded Robins, Grey-crowned Babblers, Crested Bellbirds and Gilbert's Whistlers, with Bush Stone-curlews, migrant Black Honeyeaters and Pink Robins seen occasionally.
On the marshes and tidal flats thousands of birds occur, such as Common redshank, Barnacle goose, Spoonbill, Hen harrier, Oystercatcher, red knot, Bar-tailed godwit, Curlew and European Herring Gull.
Originally used for farming and other purposes, it was purchased in 1959 by the state government of Victoria for wildlife research and the captive management and breeding of species threatened in Victoria, such as the Brolga, Magpie Goose, Australian Bustard, and Bush Stone-curlew.
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Today the battlefield at Curlew Pass is overlooked by an impressionistic sculpture by Maurice Harron called "The Gaelic Chieftain", unveiled in 1999.
In late August, 2001, another juvenile Calidris showing features of both Pectoral and Curlew Sandpipers was found at Shintone, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
The libretto is by William Plomer, who translated the setting of the original into a Christian parable, set in early medieval times near the fictional Curlew River, in the fenlands of East Anglia.
#Duncan Johnstone / The Duck (D. Macleod) / The Curlew (D.Macpherson) (4:39)
"The school .. gave the appearance of being out in the bushland as it was bordered by scrub and swamp on the northern and eastern boundaries. To the south was the creek and to the west, across Pease Street, was a tangle of ti-trees, stunted growth and thick blady grass.. At night the curlews called incessantly and in the early morning scrub wallabies came in to graze on the sports field."
In the 1950s the Eskimo Curlew was a subject of the Mark Trail comic strip by Ed Dodd.
Inland birds are fewer in numbers, Oyster catcher (Haematopus ostralegus) (the National Bird), Curlew (Numenius), Common Snipe (Capella gallinago) and Tern (Sterna) are common on the Heather hills.
Journeaux was transported from St. George's Bay back to St. John's on Bowring's vessel Curlew upon which she was given freedom of their dry goods and clothing store.
Howell played guitar on the Curlew record, North America, and met Martin Bisi, Rick Brown, Tom Cora, and Fred Frith.
Highly endangered are Great and Little Bustards, Eurasian Stone-curlew, Lesser Kestrel, Montagu's Harrier and Dupont's Lark, as these species are directly threatened by changes in the steppe ecosystem.
Gilbert was eventually captured in West Africa two years later when his ship was sunk in a naval engagement with the British brig sloop HMS Curlew, commanded by Henry Dundas Trotter.