Whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus

Summary 2

The WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is the one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland.

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Jorge Montejo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/37486682@N07/3483969283
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numenius_phaeopus

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Taxonomy:kingdom Animalia
Taxonomy:family Scolopacidae
Color brown