Is slender billed curlew extinct?

Critically Endangered (Population decreasing)
Slender-billed curlew/Conservation status

Where does the slender billed curlew live?

It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches.

Why is the slender billed curlew endangered?

The primary cause of the decline is thought to be excessive hunting on the Mediterranean wintering grounds. Habitat loss, particularly in the wintering grounds, may also have played a part, but huge areas of forest bogs suitable for breeding still exist in Siberia.

Where is the long-billed curlew most suited to survive?

Long-billed curlews spend their winters along the Pacific, Gulf and southeastern coasts of the United States and in coastal and interior Mexico. Their habitat and diet can be quite different than it is during the breeding season.

What kind of bird is a slender billed curlew?

Slender-billed curlew. The slender-billed curlew ( Numenius tenuirostris) is a bird in the wader family Scolopacidae. It breeds in marshes and peat bogs in the taiga of Siberia, and is migratory, formerly wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean. This species has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe,…

Are there curlew curlews in the Balkans?

Sightings of Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817) in the Balkan countries. Wader Study Group Bull. 62: 24-32.

Where was the curlew Numenius tenuirostris first seen?

Wader Study Group Bull. 62: 24-32. The first reported sighting of the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris in the Balkan countries was made by the Italian traveller Count L.F. Marsili (1726) who visited the Danube between the Kalenberg mountain and the confluence of the Yantra River in 1682-1683.

Who was the first person to see curlew curlews?

The first reported sighting of the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris in the Balkan countries was made by the Italian traveller Count L.F. Marsili (1726) who visited the Danube between the Kalenberg mountain and the confluence of the Yantra River in 1682-1683. Precise data on this bird however were only gathered after 1840.