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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Eskimo Curlew

Numenius borealis (J.R.Forster, 1772)

エスキモーコシャクシギ（Numenius borealis）は、チドリ目シギ科ダイシャクシギ属に分類される鳥類。 1963年を最後に観察報告が無く、絶滅した可能性が高い 。

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.35 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Body mass
0.35 kg
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Tail length
0.08 m
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Wing length
0.21 m
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Beak length
0.06 m
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Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
0.4 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. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyScolopacidae
  6. ›genusNumenius
  7. ›speciesNumenius borealis
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  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · 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 · Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
  11. genusNumenius
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In other languages
Numenius borealis (es), 极北杓鹬 (zh), Kulik eskimoski (pl), Courlis esquimau (fr), polit esquimal (ca), eszkimópóling (hu) … and 22 more languages
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