Long-billed Curlew

Order: Charadriiformes | Family: Scolopacidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. North America

Identification & Behavior: ~57.5 cm (22.4 in). The Long-billed Curlew is considered a vagrant Boreal migrant species in Peru. It forages in mudflats and shallow edges of bodies of water. It is superficially similar to a Whimbrel but is distinguished by larger size, broader wings with rufous-orange flight feathers (visible in flight), a long and thin bill, warmer brown overall plumage and a buffy and unmarked center of the belly.

Status: There is a single sight record of the Long-billed Curlew from northwest Peru, Santuario de Virrilá – Piura.

Name in Spanish: Zarapito de Pico Largo.

Sub-species: Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus), Bechstein 1812.

Meaning of Name: Numenius: Gr. noumënios, noumënia = bird mentioned by Hesychius and associated with a torchor new Moon. americanus: Originating from North America.

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References:

- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 01/01/2015.

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