failure of the Eskimo curlew population to re- 

 cover from its rapid decline in the 1880's after 

 hunting was stopped, in contrast with the golden 

 plover, a shorebird with a similar migration pat- 

 tern with which it associated in migration and on 

 its wintering grounds. The decrease in availability 

 of grasshopper egg pods, which were much more 

 numerous before most of the natural grassland of 

 the tall grass prairie belt was plowed up to plant 

 crops (U.S. Entomological Commission 1877) 

 may have been the main reason for failure to re- 

 cover. Grasshoppers avoid cultivated land for egg 

 laying and the great destructive flights of grass- 

 hoppers in the American prairies declined at 

 about the same time as the Eskimo curlew; both 

 coincided with the extensive breaking of the 

 prairie sod in the American Midlands. 



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