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Eurasian Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus · Family Scolopacidae
Numenius phaeopus
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,743,519
- Countries and territories with records
- 227
About this species
This species has 1,743,519 occurrence records from 227 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (28.4%), Sweden (8.2%), Australia (5.8%), Spain (4.6%) and the United Kingdom (4.5%); together they account for 51.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.044% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Numenius phaeopus combines the genus name Numenius with the species epithet phaeopus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Numenius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Numenius arquata, Numenius americanus and Numenius madagascariensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 2.5 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.