Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Numenius tahitiensis

1 Species ID Suggestions

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus


Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

CorriMacEwen
CorriMacEwen 12 years ago

Thanks everyone! Will update record with the suggested id.

Darwin26
Darwin26 12 years ago

i'm gonna guess Bristle-thighed Curlew ~ Numenius thahitiensis.
Because of the darker eye-liner and because it's not unlikely to be in that area according to Sibley's but for sure it's difficult to say for certain this time of year and the transformations they under go.

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

beautiful snap and spotting as well

CorriMacEwen
Spotted by
CorriMacEwen

California, USA

Spotted on Oct 8, 2011
Submitted on Oct 15, 2011

Related Spottings

Whimbrel Whimbrel Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 中杓鷸

Nearby Spottings

Harbor Seal Teasel Seal California Sister Butterfly
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team