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.
- Near Threatened
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An adult individual calling, then taking flight, flying upward, and landing with another call Burgenland State, Austria (ssp arquata)
Malcolm Mark Swan 25 May 2006 2 years ago 40 sec 4.4 -
A bird wading and feeding Ebro Delta, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arquata)
Pedro Rubio 1994 7 years ago 15 sec 4.4 -
A bird feeding at the seashore Santoña Marsh Natural Reserve, Santoña, Cantabria, Spain
Javier Ortas 11 December 2007 1 year ago 31 sec 4.3 -
A bird wading and feeding Ebro Delta, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arquata)
Pedro Rubio 1994 7 years ago 18 sec 4.3 -
A close up of a bird Zeeland Province, Netherlands
Javier Ortas 3 February 2010 27 weeks ago 30 sec 4 -
A bird feeding in the water Zeeland, Netherlands (ssp arquata)
Christian Dortu 24 September 1996 4 years ago 14 sec 3.4
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ON THE RUN Al Ruwais, Qatar
John A Thompson 2 April 2010 21 weeks ago 4.3 -
A bird in the field Scotland, UK
Franck Renard 1 June 2009 22 weeks ago 3.8 -
Feeding on the turning tide Al Khor, Qatar
John A Thompson 27 September 2009 12 weeks ago 3.7 -
In shallow water of Gulf of Kutch Kutch District, Gujarat, India
jugal Tiwari 23 August 2009 7 weeks ago 3.3 -
adult calling The Wash estuary, Norfolk, England, UK
RobRob 4 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.3 -
Adult alerting. East Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan (ssp orientalis)
Christophe Gouraud 1 June 2010 5 weeks ago 3.2
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Perhaps alarm call Rajasthan, India
(ssp orientalis)
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 February 1995 27 weeks ago 3 -
Calls of a few birds taking flight from salt marsh Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England, UK
(ssp arquata)
Stuart Fisher 46 weeks ago 3
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