Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae) - HBW 3
Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)
French: Courlis esquimau
German: Eskimobrachvogel
Spanish: Zarapito Esquimal
Taxonomy: Scolopax borealis J. R. Forster, 1772, Fort Albany, Hudson Bay.
Forms superspecies with N. minutus, with which formerly regarded as conspecific. Monotypic.
Distribution: CN Canada, on S shore and inland of Amundsen Gulf along Coppermine R to Point L; possibly also N Alaska. Winters in Uruguay and Argentina and possibly also in Chile.
- Critically Endangered
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