Eskimo Curlew
Numenius borealis(Forster, JR, 1772)
English (US) Eskimo Curlew
The Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis) 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 Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: formerly bred low Arctic tundra of northwestern North America, from northern Northwest Territories (northwestern Canada; possibly also northern Alaska); wintered in grassland from southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina; probably extinct, last confirmed record 1963Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Numenius borealis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Eskimo Curlew
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1772)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax borealis
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1772)
- Type locality
- Fort Albany, Hudson Bay.
- Original description
- Philosophical Transactions 62 p.431
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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