| Slender-billed curlew | |
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| Taxidermy specimen from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Numenius |
| Species: | N. tenuirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817
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The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew 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, formerly 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.[3] As of November 2024, its status on the IUCN Red List has not been updated, remaining as critically endangered.[1]
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2018). "Numenius tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22693185A131111201. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22693185A131111201.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Buchanan, Graeme M.; Chapple, Ben; Berryman, Alex J.; Crockford, Nicola; Jansen, Justin J. F. J.; Bond, Alexander L. (17 November 2024). "Global extinction of Slender‐billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)". Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.13368. ISSN 0019-1019.