Eurasian Curlew
Eurasian Curlew: Large curlew, strongly marked underparts lack rich orange or buff tones that other long billed curlews often show. Brown upperparts. Large, decurved bill, black upper mandible, lower mandible has pink base. In flight it shows prominent white lower back, rump, and underwing linings.
● Song:
"cur-li cur-li cur-li"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Eurasian Curlew: Feeds by probing with long bill into soil, mud, or sand. Eats a variety of insects, larvae, and crustaceans. Feeds in wet meadows, forest edges, and marshes during the breeding season, but shifts to coastal marine mudflats during nonbreeding season and gathers in large flocks.
● Breeding & nesting:
Eurasian Curlew: Nest built on ground among grasses or tussocks with male making several crude scrapes and female picking one to line with fine grasses. Lays four brown marked, dark olive eggs that are incubated by both parents for 27 to 29 days. Newly hatched chicks are feed by both parents, but can soon feed themselves. First flight in just over a month.
● Similar species:
Eurasian Curlew: Long-billed Curlew has rather plain orange underparts, orange wing linings, and heavily marked rump. Far Eastern Curlew has significantly longer bill, more richly colored orange underparts, and heavily marked wing linings.