Curlew
Courlis is a general name for of birds Numenius, group of eight species of Limicole S characterized by a long nozzle, fine and bent to the bottom, and a especially maroon plumage with few changes according to the season. They represent one of the lines oldest limicolous Scolopacidé S, with the barges which resemble to them but have upright burners or slightly turned up. In Europe one generally indicates by “curlew” only one species, the ashy Courlis Numenius arquata .
The curlew find their food in the mud or the very soft ground, where they seek worms and other invertebrates with their long nozzles. They take also crabs and animals of the same kind.
The œdicnèmes, often named “ground curlew”, are not truths curlew (family of scolopacidés), but they belong to the family of the Burhinidé S, classified in the same order of the Charadriiforme S.
List species
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dwarf Curlew - Numenius minutus Gould, 1841 - Little Curlew
- Eskimo Curlew - Numenius borealis (Forster, 1772) - Eskimo Curlew
- Curlew corlieu - Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Whimbrel
- Curlew of Alaska - Numenius tahitiensis (J.F. Gmelin, 1789) - Bristle-thighed Curlew
- Courlis with nozzle hails - Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817 - Slender-billed Curlew
- ashy Curlew - Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Eurasian Curlew
- Curlew of Siberia - Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Far Eastern Curlew
- Curlew with long nozzle - Numenius americanus Bechstein, 1812 - Length-billed Curlew
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