Slender-billed Curlew

Numenius tenuirostris

Critically Endangered

The Slender-billed Curlew is a shorebird of former Eurasian breeding areas and Mediterranean, African, and Asian wintering grounds. It uses its bill, legs, and alert flight to feed on invertebrates, seeds, or small aquatic prey along coasts, mudflats, rivers, lakes, grasslands, or open ground; many shorebirds make impressive seasonal movements between breeding and non-breeding areas.

Family

Scolopacidae

Group

Shorebirds

Range

Slender-billed Curlew Range — Resident or seasonal range in former Eurasian breeding areas and Mediterranean, African, and Asian wintering grounds

Population

≈ Possibly extinct

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