few dozen additional unconfirmed reports from the Northwest Territories, Texas, Ontario, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Alaska, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Argentina, Guatemala, Labrador, New Jersey, and North Carolina between 1964 and 2006. No confirmed record of this species has been reported in South America since 1939. It has been suggested that the species not be treated as extinct until all possible remaining habitats have been surveyed and incidental sightings have ceased, and an assessment of critically endangered (possibly extinct) be adopted in the meantime. Full details on all sightings up to 1986 are included in the online edition of Eskimo Curlew: A Vanishing Species? This species is fully protected in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Hunting has been outlawed since around 1916. In popular culture The plight of this bird inspired the novel (and subsequent Emmy Award-winning 1972 ABC Afterschool Special) Last of the Curlews. The Esquimaux Curlew appears as Plate CCCLVII of Audubon's Birds of America. References Further reading del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors) (1996): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. . National Geographic Society (2002): Field Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic, Washington, D.C. . External links BirdLife Species Factsheet. USGS Eskimo curlew site "Where Have All the Curlews Gone?" by Paul Johnsgard Photographs of the 1962 Texas sighting Numenius (bird) Birds described in 1772 ESA endangered species Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster