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The Eurasian curlew is the largest wader in its range, at 50–60 cm (20–24 in) in length, with an 89–106 cm (35–42 in) wingspan and a body weight of 410–1,360 g (0.90–3.00 lb). [7] It is mainly greyish brown, with a white back, greyish-blue legs and a very long curved bill.
The type species is the Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata). [9] The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus had introduced the genus Numenius in the 6th edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1748, [ 10 ] but Linnaeus dropped the genus in the important tenth edition of 1758 and put the curlews together with the woodcocks in the genus Scolopax .
The Eurasian stone-curlew is a fairly large wader, though mid-sized by the standards of its family.Length ranges from 38 to 46 cm (15 to 18 in), wingspan from 76 to 88 cm (30 to 35 in) and weight from 290 to 535 g (10.2 to 18.9 oz).
Little curlew: Numenius minutus Gould, 1841: 5 Eskimo curlew: Numenius borealis (Forster, JR, 1772) (probably E) 6 Long-billed curlew: Numenius americanus Bechstein, 1812: 7 Far Eastern curlew: Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) 8 Slender-billed curlew: Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817: 9 Eurasian curlew: Numenius arquata (Linnaeus ...
The names thick-knee and stone-curlew are both in common use. The term stone-curlew owes its origin to the broad similarities with true curlews. Thick-knee refers to the prominent joints in the long yellow or greenish legs and apparently originated with a name coined in 1776 for B. oedicnemus, the Eurasian stone-curlew.
The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew native to Eurasia and North Africa. Isotope analysis suggests the majority of the former population bred in the Kazakh Steppe despite a record from the Siberian swamps, and was migratory, formerly wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean.
The word "curlew" is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger", from courir , "to run". It was first recorded in 1377 in Langland's Piers Plowman. [2] The genus name Numenius is from Ancient Greek noumenios, a bird mentioned by Hesychius.
The Druridge Bay curlew was a curlew that was present in Druridge Bay, Northumberland in May 1998, whose species identification proved to be controversial. The bird was identified by its finder, and most others who saw it, as a first-summer slender-billed curlew , one of the rarest birds in the world; however, this identification provoked ...