Far Eastern Curlew
Numenius madagascariensis(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Far Eastern Curlew
The Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) 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: breeds inland wetlands from east-central Siberia to Kamchatka and Ussuriland (southeastern Russia) and Heilongjiang (northeastern China); winters to Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand (scarce)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Numenius madagascariensis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax madagascariensis
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Madagascar, error = Macassar, Celebes, as designated by Neumann, antea, p. 150.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.242
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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