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 LC    Long-billed Curlew* Id (Atlas):
    Numenius americanus

Description (10)
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Family
Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Size
50 - 65 cm
Wingspan: 62 - 90 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bechstein, 1812

Range (Guide)
Canada (B), Costa Rica (NB), El Salvador (NB), Guatemala (NB), Honduras (NB), Mexico (NB), USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cuba, French Guiana, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 123,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status LC
Loss and conversion of short grass prairie to agriculture is probably the most important threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (88)...)

 
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) [XC636978]
     by from Road 16 NE, Grant County, Washington, United States (call)

 
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) [XC387926]
     by Paul Marvin from Tijuana Slough NWR, trail from south end of 5th street, Imperial Beach, California, United States (flight call)

Subspecies
Subspecies parvus formerly labelled occidentalis; type specimen of latter lost.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • parvus Bechstein, 1812   -  South-central British Columbia east to southern Manitoba, and south to California and South Dakota. Winters from California and Louisiana south to Mexico.
  • americanus Bechstein, 1812   -  Nevada east to South Dakota and south through Utah and north-western Oklahoma to northern Texas. Winters from California, and Texas south to Mexico and Guatemala.



References
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Files:
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