Great stone-curlew
Great stone-curlew | |
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At Chambal River, Uttar Pradesh, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Burhinidae |
Genus: | Esacus |
Species: | E. recurvirostris |
Binomial name | |
Esacus recurvirostris (Cuvier, 1829) | |
E. recurvirostris range |
The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh into South-east Asia.
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