Slender-billed Curlew

Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817

308 gWeight

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew formerly native to Eurasia and North Africa.

Most records: Morocco, Türkiye, Bulgaria

Extinct

Where and when it's recorded

Most records: Morocco, Türkiye, Bulgaria

Slender-billed Curlew has been recorded at 9 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 7 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Merja Zerga – domaine généralMorocco28 records
Old Lakes of Hortobágy fishponds – Hortobágyi-halastóHungary3 records
Mogan Gölü – Genel AlanTürkiye3 records

More places

Poda Protected AreaBulgaria2 records
Senianske rybníkySlovakia1 record
Atanasovsko Lake – NorthBulgaria1 record
Evros Delta NP – Drana and Paloukia LagoonGreece1 record
Klingnauer StauseeSwitzerland1 record
IBA Göksu DeltasıTürkiye1 record

Countries and regions with the most records

Morocco Türkiye Bulgaria Hungary Switzerland Greece Slovakia

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew formerly 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, wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean. This species has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Oman, Canada, and Japan.

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