Slender-billed Curlew
Numenius tenuirostrisVieillot, LJP, 1817
English (US) Slender-billed Curlew
The Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) 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 southwestern Siberia; wintered to coastal Tunisia and Morocco; probably extinct, last verified report 2001Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Numenius tenuirostris
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Slender-billed Curlew
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1817
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1817
- Type locality
- Egypt.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 8 p.302
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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