Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Little Curlew (Numenius minutus) - HBW 3, p. 502
French: Courlis nain
German: Zwergbrachvogel
Spanish: Zarapito Chico
Other common names: Little Whimbrel
Taxonomy: Numenius minutus Gould, 1841, New South Wales.
Forms superspecies with N. borealis, with which formerly considered conspecific. Monotypic.
Distribution: N & C Yakutia, from S slopes of Putorana Mts E to R Anabar, and Verkhoyansk and Cherski Mts on upper R Yana and R Indigirka as far E as R Anyuy, along Siberian coast. Winters in New Guinea and Australia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Little Curlew, adult migrant bird, feeding in stubble field. Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 8 May 2010 1 year ago 1 min 44 sec 4.2 -
A bird foraging on a wetland Locality Iwahig, Palawan, Philippines (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 1 May 2007 4 years ago 33 sec 4.1 -
Little Curlew, adult bird feeding in stubble field. Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 8 May 2010 1 year ago 1 min 56 sec 4 -
A bird feeding on the ground Locality Archerfield Airport, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Tom Tarrant 31 October 1994 7 years ago 30 sec 3
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One bird (of a small group of three) in an unused agricultural field (digiscoped).
Locality Wallaroo, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 24 February 2010 1 year ago 3 -
birds wading in freshwater lagoon
Locality Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (Monotypic species)
Mat Gilfedder 30 October 2004 2 years ago 2
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