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Great Thick-knee

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Great Thick-knee

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Also known as Esacus recurvirostris

species of bird

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Vinony's link graph records 51 inbound references to Great Thick-knee, and connects out to binomial nomenclature, India and Asia.

It sits within the topics Birds described in 1829, Birds of Hainan and Birds of Indochina.

Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Near Threatened

via IUCN

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Esacus
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Great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris).jpg
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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.

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