Far Eastern Curlew

When to see the Far Eastern Curlew

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Far Eastern Curlew

The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Canada, Micronesia, Guam.

About the Far Eastern Curlew

The Far Eastern curlew is a large wader most similar in appearance to the long-billed curlew, but slightly larger. It is mostly brown, differentiated from other curlews by its plain, unpatterned brown underwing, and brown rump. It is not only the largest curlew but probably the world's largest sandpiper, at 60–66 cm (24–26 in) in length and 110 cm (43 in) across the wings. The weight is 390–1,350 g (0.86–2.98 lb), which is equalled by the Eurasian curlew; females are on average about 100 g heavier than males. The extremely long bill, at 12.8–20.1 cm (5.0–7.9 in) in length, rivals the bill size of the closely related long-billed curlew as the longest bill for a sandpiper.

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Easily confused with

Little CurlewNumenius minutusIt is mainly greyish-brown, including the underwings, with a white belly, and a short, for a curlew, curved bill. Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensisThe bristle-thighed curlew has a long, decurved bill and bristled feathers at the base of the legs. Hudsonian WhimbrelNumenius hudsonicusThis is a fairly large wader, though mid-sized as a member of the curlew genus.