Slender-billed Curlew

Numenius tenuirostris - Courlis à bec grêle

Systematics

Order
:
Charadriiformes
Family
:
Scolopacidés
Genus
:
Numenius
Species
:
tenuirostris

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1817

Biometrics

Size
: 41 cm
Wingspan
: 80 à 92 cm.
Weight
: 255 à 360 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Description identification

Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the Scolopacidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

Courlis à bec grêle,
Zarapito fino,
maçarico-de-bico-fino,
Dünnschnabel-Brachvogel,
vékonycsőrű póling,
Dunbekwulp,
Chiurlottello,
smalnäbbad spov,
Smalnebbspove,
hvizdák tenkozobý,
koliha tenkozobá,
Tyndnæbbet Spove,
kaitanokkakuovi,
polit becfí,
Dílaspói,
kulik cienkodzioby,
tievknābja kuitala,
tenkokljuni škurh,
Тонкоклювый кроншнеп,
シロハラチュウシャクシギ,
细嘴杓鹬,
細嘴杓鷸,

Voice song and cries

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Habitat

Grassland : Temperate ; Wetlands (inland) : Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Saline, Brackish or alkaline Marshes/Pools ; Marine Intertidal : Salt Marshes (Emergent Grasses) ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Water Storage Areas (over 8ha)

Geographic range

Sources of information

Limicoles, gangas et pigeons d'Europe, Paul Géroudet (mise à jour Georges Olioso)
Shorebirds, an identification guide to the waders of the world, Peter Hayman, John Marchant Tony Prater
Birds of the World, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
xeno-canto, Sharing bird sounds from around the world,
IOC World Bird List (v12.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2022.

Other sources of interest