Long-billed Curlew
Numenius americanus Bechstein, 1812
Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, is a shorebird of the family Scolopacidae that breeds in inland grassland across temperate western and central North America, from southern British Columbia and south-western Saskatchewan to north-eastern California, north-eastern New Mexico and north-western Nebraska. Outside the breeding season it moves to coastal and inland areas of the southern USA, Mexico and western Central America, including California, the south-east USA, Mexico to central Panama and the western Yucatán Peninsula. It is the largest sandpiper regularly found in North America, and its bill is notably long and downcurved.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
- Breeding range
- North America: inland grassland of temperate wc North America: s British Columbia e to sw Saskatchewan (sw, sc Canada) and s to ne California, ne New Mexico and nw Nebraska (sw, wc USA)
- Nonbreeding range
- coastal and inland s USA, Mexico, and w Central America: California, coastal se USA, coastal and inland Mexico to c Panama (e North Pacific) and to w Yucatan Pen. (e Mexico; w North Atlantic)
