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Eurasian Curlew🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Curlew

Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Eurasian curlew or common curlew is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across temperate Europe and Asia. In Europe, this species is often referred to just as the "curlew", and in Scotland known as the "whaup" in Scots.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.8 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
32 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Curlew

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.8 kg
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female869 kgWikidataQ18854
  • Male742 kgWikidataQ18854

Figures vary

  • 0.73 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.29 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.15 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
32 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: SeaLifeBase Β· v25.04 Β· CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassAves
  4. β€ΊorderCharadriiformes
  5. β€ΊfamilyScolopacidae
  6. β€ΊgenusNumenius
  7. β€ΊspeciesNumenius arquata
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds Β· Aves
  3. familyScolopacidae
  4. genusNumenius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds Β· Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
  11. genusNumenius
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Redshank β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 38 million years ago.
In other languages
白腰杓鹬 (zh), Kulik wielki (pl), Courlis cendrΓ© (fr), Numenius arquata (es), nagy pΓ³ling (hu), Numenius arquata (it) … and 25 more languages
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Eurasian CurlewChiurlo Maggiore (Numenius arquata) DSC7954
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