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Beach Stone-curlew
Esacus magnirostris
IUCN Red List status: Near threatened
IUCN Red List status
- Worldwide
- 2,057 observations
- Group
- Birds
iNaturalist hides the exact location of threatened species, so a sighting can sit several kilometres from the point shown on its record.
About
The beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) also known as beach thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia. At 55 cm (22 in) and 1 kg (2.2 lb), it is one of the world's largest shorebirds. At a mean of 1,032 g (2.275 lb) in males and 1,000 g (2.2 lb) in females, it the heaviest living member of the Charadriiformes outside of the gull and skua families.
Summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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