POSTER SIZE: 20" x 30"
ORIGINAL MEDIA : Book Plate
PICTURE ORIGIN: USA
COLLECTIONS: Artist John James Audubon
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Long-billed curlew. ( Numenius americanus )
Identification Tips:
* Length: 19 inches
* Very large, long-necked, small-headed shorebird
* Brownish rump and barred tail
* Cinnamon wing linings
* White eyering, dusky eyeline
* Sexes similar
Adult:
* Very long, decurved bill
* Pale buff head and neck faintly streaked with darker brown
* Buff brown underparts with sparse dark streaking on flanks
* Dark back with pale edges and notches to feathers
* Dark brown outer wing contrasts with paler inner wing in flight
Juvenile:
* Much shorter bill, often with less downward curve
Similar species:
Whimbrel has a similar, though shorter, bill, but has bold black head stripes, and lacks cinnamon wing linings. Marbled Godwit is similar but has a straight, somewhat recurved bill.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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