Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
About the Slender-billed Curlew
The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew formerly native to Eurasia and North Africa. Isotope analysis suggests the majority of the former population bred in the Kazakh Steppe despite a record from the Siberian swamps, and was migratory, wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean. This species has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Oman, Canada, and Japan. In November 2024, the species was declared globally extinct, with the last irrefutable sighting of the slender-billed curlew identified from Morocco in February 1995.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 2 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Morocco in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquatarecording
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusrecording
- Hudsonian WhimbrelNumenius hudsonicusrecording
- Little CurlewNumenius minutusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.