Great stone-curlew

Great stone-curlew
At Chambal River, Uttar Pradesh, India

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
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
  E. magnirostris 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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