Notes: Fairly large brown wader w. strongly decurved bill, dark
eye-stripe & fine eye-ring, dark- brown crown w. pale central stripe. In flight,
pale rump, no toe trailing. Cf smaller, shorter-billed Little Curlew, larger, dark-rumped,
blank-faced Eastern Curlew & vagrant Hudsonian Whimbrel. Call is a
series of short, shrill whistles. Migrant after breeding on low Arctic Siberian
tundra; widespread along Aust. coast. Feeds by sight on intertidal invertebrates.