Archive for the ‘Curlews’ Category

• Little curlew

  Oct 9 | Curlews, Sandpipers+ | Little Stint | 1276 Views | with Comments Off on Little curlew

  Little curlew – Numenius minutus – is a small migratory Asian curlew, of Type – wader, Family Scolopacidae and Order Charadriiformes. It breeds in E Siberia and Winters in Australasia. The AWB Region lies...

• Far Eastern curlew

  Mar 29 | Curlews, Sandpipers+ | Little Stint | 1368 Views | with Comments Off on Far Eastern curlew

  Far Eastern curlew – Numenius madagascariensis – is a large migratory Asian shorebird of Type – wader, Family Scolopacidae and Order Charadriiformes. It is a summer breeder to NE Asia and winters in the islands...

• Slender-billed curlew

  Aug 15 | Curlews, Sandpipers+ | Little Stint | 1728 Views | with Comments Off on Slender-billed curlew

  The Slender-billed curlew – Numenius tenuirostris is a small curlew of Type – wader, Family Scolopacidae and Order Charadriiformes. It is Critically Endangered and formerly bred on the Steppes of Kazakhstan, but...

• Eurasian Curlew

  Aug 11 | Curlews, Sandpipers+ | Little Stint | 2543 Views | with No Comments

  The Eurasian curlew – Numenius arquata is a large wader of the family Scolopacidae. It has an extensive northern Eurasian breeding range and migrates S to Temperate and Tropical mainly coastal regions of the Old World. In...