Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) - HBW 3, p. 504
French: Courlis cendré
German: Großer Brachvogel
Spanish: Zarapito Real
Other common names: Common Curlew
Taxonomy: Scolopax Arquata Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Racial variation clinal; W populations of orientalis have on occasion been separated as race sushkini. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- arquata (Linnaeus, 1758) - British Is and France across W Europe (N to Arctic Circle) and E to R Volga and Urals; winters from Iceland and British Is S to Mediterranean and NW Africa, and E to Persian Gulf and W India.
- orientalis C. L. Brehm, 1831 - R Volga and Urals E through C Russia and N Kazakhstan to C Manchuria; winters in W, E & S Africa, and from S Caspian Sea S to Persian Gulf and E through S Asia to E China and S Japan, and S to Philippines and Greater Sundas.
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A bird feeding at the seashore Locality Santoña Marsh Natural Reserve, Santoña, Cantabria, Spain
Javier Ortas 11 December 2007 2 years ago 31 sec 4.6 -
An adult individual calling, then taking flight, flying upward, and landing with another call Locality Burgenland State, Austria (ssp arquata)
Malcolm Mark Swan 25 May 2006 4 years ago 40 sec 4.6 -
A bird wading and feeding Locality Ebro Delta, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arquata)
Pedro Rubio 1994 9 years ago 15 sec 4.4 -
A bird wading and feeding Locality Ebro Delta, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arquata)
Pedro Rubio 1994 9 years ago 18 sec 4.3 -
A bird feeding on the grassland (hare feeding in the background ). Locality East Flanders Province, Belgium
Jeremiusz Trzaska 29 December 2011 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 32 sec 4.3 -
few in the seashore Locality Jiangsu, China (Northern)
Vicky Cheng 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 2 min 8 sec 4.3
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It is a winter visitor of Hong Kong. It was found at Mai Po mud flat in huge flock.
Locality Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve, Hong Kong
Pikhar_Ho 27 January 2011 52 weeks ago 4.7 -
Two individuals feed and drink under date trees along road
Locality Ghantoot, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
ahmet karataş 22 January 2012 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4.6 -
Two heads better than one
Locality Al Wakra Beach, Qatar
John A Thompson 16 May 2011 36 weeks ago 4.5 -
perching on the shoreline
Locality Zeeland Province, Netherlands
Marco Valentini 18 November 2011 11 weeks ago 4.1 -
ON THE RUN
Locality Al Ruwais, Qatar
John A Thompson 2 April 2010 1 year ago 4 -
A bird in the field
Locality Scotland, Great Britain
Franck Renard 1 June 2009 1 year ago 4
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Perhaps alarm call Locality Rajasthan, India
(ssp orientalis)
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 February 1995 1 year ago 3 -
Calls of a few birds taking flight from salt marsh Locality Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England, Great Britain
(ssp arquata)
Stuart Fisher 2 years ago 3
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