Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae) - HBW 3

Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

French: Courlis à bec grêle German: Dünnschnabel-Brachvogel Spanish: Zarapito Fino

Taxonomy: Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817, Egypt.
Monotypic.

Distribution: SW Siberia and N Kazakhstan, precise breeding range virtually unknown. Winters in NW Africa, and probably also Iraq.

  • Critically Endangered
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  • Mounted bird. Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Lower Silesian Province, Poland (Monotypic species)
    Tomasz Doroń 27 October 2006 15 weeks ago 2
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