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BEACH STONE-CURLEW FACTS |
Description
The Beach Stone-curlew is a large grey brown shorebird with large heavy bill. It has black head with long white stripe above the eye an black and white chin and throat. The wings have dark grey bar edged with white. The underside is white. The bill is black with yellow base and legs are pale
Other Names
Beach Thick-knee
Size
56 cm
Habitat
beaches, reefs, estuaries, islands, mudflats, mangroves, sandbars
Food
crabs and other water invertebrates
Breeding
The nest is on the sand above the high tide line. The female lays single egg.
Range
The Beach Stone-curlew is found around the northern coast of Australia from New South Wales round to central Western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Burhinidae | | Genus: | Esacus | | Species: | neglectus | | Common Name: | Beach Stone-curlew |
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