Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) - HBW 3, p. 505
French: Courlis de Sibérie
German: Isabellbrachvogel
Spanish: Zarapito Siberiano
Other common names: Eastern/Australian/Long-billed/Red-rumped Curlew
Taxonomy: Scolopax madagascariensis Linnaeus, 1766, Madagascar; error = Macassar, Sulawesi.
Monotypic.
Distribution: E Siberia, from upper reaches of R Nizhnyaya Tunguska E through Verkhoyansk Mts to Kamchatka, and S to NE Mongolia, Manchuria and Ussuriland. Winters in Taiwan, Indonesia and New Guinea, but most birds migrate to Australia and a few reach New Zealand. Never recorded in Madagascar.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird scratching its head with its foot Locality Manly, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1997 6 years ago 23 sec 4.1 -
A female preening on a sandbar with Bar-tailed Godwits in the foreground Locality Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 5 years ago 20 sec 3.8 -
A female standing in shallow water Locality Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 5 years ago 20 sec 3.7 -
A female walking then standing in shallow water Locality Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 5 years ago 9 sec 3.6 -
A bird walking and feeding on the grass. Locality Glukhoye Lake, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 June 2009 1 year ago 45 sec 3.5 -
A bird on the grass, feeding. Locality Glukhoye Lake, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 June 2009 1 year ago 45 sec 3.3
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In flight showing under wing
Locality Hong Kong
Martin Hale 24 April 2009 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4.1 -
a bird on the tide.
Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 25 October 2007 34 weeks ago 4 -
Two birds wading in shallow water.
Locality Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 24 October 2011 12 weeks ago 3 -
Bird on the beach
Locality Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Guy Poisson 16 November 2005 1 year ago 3 -
bird walking in the mud
Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Georges Olioso 18 September 2007 2 years ago 3 -
Foraging on the river mudflats
Locality Moruya, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 1 November 2007 50 weeks ago 2.7
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Individual walking and foraging; the bird stood still for a few seconds, raised its head and made this call Locality Cairns, Queensland, Australia
(Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 2 March 2009 1 year ago 4
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