Thursday, 23 March 2017

Slender-billed Curlew: have we been looking in the wrong places?



Scientists from the RSPB have carried out stable isotope analysis on feathers from juvenile Slender-billed Curlews Numenius tenuirostris to identify potential breeding areas, and found that these areas may be significantly further south than previously thought.

Previously the only known breeding area of Slender-billed Curlew was from the Omsk province, western Siberia. 

This has led some to hope that new searches could lead to its ‘rediscovery’.

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