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Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Esacus recurvirostris
- Commons category
- Esacus recurvirostris
- wingspan
- 95
- egg incubation period
- 28
- taxon common name
- alcaravão-grande
- short name
- E. recurvirostris
- taxon author citation
- (Cuvier, 1829)
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Encyclopedic overview
The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh into South-east Asia.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Thick-knee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.