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Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata · Family Scolopacidae
Numenius arquata
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,545,569
- Countries and territories with records
- 161
About this species
This species has 2,545,569 occurrence records from 161 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (20.8%), the United Kingdom (16.8%), the Netherlands (15%), Denmark (9.7%) and Norway (9.3%); together they account for 71.6% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.52% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Numenius arquata combines the genus name Numenius with the species epithet arquata. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Numenius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Numenius phaeopus, Numenius americanus and Numenius madagascariensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 3.6 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.