Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae) - HBW 3
Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)
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
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A bird scratching its head with its foot Manly, Queensland, Australia
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1997 4 years ago 23 sec 3.8 -
A female preening on a sandbar with Bar-tailed Godwits in the foreground Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 3 years ago 20 sec 3.8 -
A female standing in shallow water Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 3 years ago 20 sec 3.7 -
A female walking then standing in shallow water Letitia Sandspit, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 3 years ago 9 sec 3.6
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bird walking in the mud Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Georges Olioso 18 September 2007 44 weeks ago 3
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Individual walking and foraging; the bird stood still for a few seconds, raised its head and made this call Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Joe Angseesing 2 March 2009 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4
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