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Great Stone-curlew

Esacus recurvirostris(Cuvier, GLCFD, 1829)

English (US) Great Stone-curlew

The Great Stone-curlew (Esacus recurvirostris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Burhinidae (Thick-knees and Stone-curlews) in the order Charadriiformes.

Range: estuaries of southern Iran; riverine systems of Indus Valley (central Pakistan), sub-Himalayan India southward to Sri Lanka and eastward to northern Thailand, northern Cambodia, and VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Esacus recurvirostris
IUCN Red List
Near Threatened
English (US)
Great Stone-curlew
Described by
(Cuvier, GLCFD, 1829)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
OEdicnemus recurvirostris
Described by
(Cuvier, GLCFD, 1829)
Type locality
No locality, = Nepal, fide Stuart Baker.
Original description
Le règne animal distribué d'aprés son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée ed. 2, 1 p.500

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 10 species of the family Burhinidae