Slender-billed Curlew 2020

A new record of Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris in the Rhine- Meuse delta, SW Netherlands, a 2nd cal.yr. female found on 4th April 2020.

see for previous records of Slender-billed Curlews:

 

Slender-billed Curlew 2013  – Radioactive Robins and other birds

 

 

Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris – photography Norman Deans van Swelm.

The 11 Slender-billed Curlews seen in 2013 plus the 2020 individual are the
only living Slender-billed Curlews reported worldwide this century.
However the good news is that the 2020 bird is a young bird, born in
2019 so that in any case the species is not extinct,
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See for the most complete description of the history of the
Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris; Glutz von Blotzheim,Urs,
Bauer,K.M, & Bezzel, Einhard. 1977 Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas
7(2). Akads. Verlag,Wiesbaden

Glutz et al FIG.55 diagnostic tail-feathers Slender-billed Curlew,
Russian Curlew and European Curlew:

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Glutz et al FIG.56 diagnostic upper-tail-feathers Slender-billed Curlew,
Russian Curlew and European Curlew:

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See for diagnostic tail-pattern Slender-billed Curlew:

  Hayman,Peter,Marchant,John and Tony Prater. 1986.Shorebirds, An
identification guide to the waders of the world Croom Helm Ltd,
Beckenham. Plate 52 p.140.

  Message,Stephen and Don Taylor.2005.Shorebirds of North
America,,Europe, and Asia.Princeton University Press, Princeton and
Oxford. Plate 64 p.164.

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For comparison of Slender-billed Curlew with other curlews see these links:


https://radioactiverobins.com/archive/snipes-waders/european%20curlew%20numenius%20a.arquata.htm


https://radioactiverobins.com/archive/snipes-waders/steppe%20curlews%20num%20arq%20sschkini.htm


https://radioactiverobins.com/archive/snipes-waders/eastern%20or%20russian%20curlew%20numenius%20a.orientalis.htm


https://www.radioactiverobins.com/slender-billed-curlew/

Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris from Hungary

Dunbekwulp-in-Nederland-ALJ-v-IJzendoorn-1948-Limosa-21