title: Curlew (disambiguation)
text: # Curlew (disambiguation)
  
  Curlew is the common name for a group of birds of the family Scolopacidae.
  
  Curlew may also refer to:
  
  ## Music
  
  * The Curlew, song cycle by Peter Warlock written between 1920 and 1922
  * Curlew (band), an American jazz group
     * Curlew (album), a 1981 album by Curlew
  * Curlew River, a 1964 opera by Benjamin Britten
  
  ## Places
  
  * Curlew Island (disambiguation)
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Curlew, Alberta, a locality in Kneehill County, Alberta
  
  ### United States
  
  * Curlew, Iowa, a city in Palo Alto County, Iowa
  * Curlew, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Union County, Kentucky
  * Curlew, Washington, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ferry County, Washington,
  
  ## Ships
  
  * Curlew (steamboat), an American steamer completed in 1856 and sunk in 1863
  * CSS Curlew, a Confederate States Navy gunboat commissioned in 1861 and burned in 1862
  * HMCS Curlew, a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper and patrol vessel commissioned in 1914 and sold in 1921
  * HMS Curlew, various ships of the British Royal Navy
  * USFS Curlew, a fishery vessel in the fleet of the United States Bureau of Fisheries
  * USS Curlew, various United States Navy ships
  
  ## Aircraft
  
  * CLW Curlew, a British training aircraft of the 1930s
  