Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817:302
Slender-billed curlew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: ~12 PM 9 July 1996 (Bojko & Nowak, 1996); April 2001 (Hungary; Buchanan et al. 2010; Oláh & Pigniczki, 2010)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and Russia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
NHMUK 1918.1.10.1 (Kirwan et al. 2015)
NHMUK 1933.2.16.5 (Kirwan et al. 2015)
Media
References
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