Photo 6377779, (c) upupamartin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by upupamartin

Attribution © upupamartin
some rights reserved
Uploaded by upupamartin upupamartin
Source iNaturalist
Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Observer

upupamartin

Date

January 1990

Place

Morocco (Google, OSM)

Description

First iNaturalist record.

With Graham Armstrong, Pete Ellis, Steve Guy, Guy Langan, Paul Harvey, Phil Heath, Ian Lewis.

Seen for more than an hour after dawn, in a small loose group of Eur. Curlews, feeding in a short-grass field on the south side of the main lake. This was "limpy" - the bird that had been shot about 3 weeks earlier, but seemed to make a recovery.

This location is the last known wintering site for this species. The last record from here was in February 1995.

Here is a link to the last video taken at this site, in January 1995:

http://www.hbw.com/ibc/video/slender-billed-curlew-numenius-tenuirostris/bird-foraging-short-grass

Associated taxa
Sizes