#stone curlew

[herpsandbirds]

Great Stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris), family Burhinidae, order Charadriiformes, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Sanjay Lunkad

[proton-wobbler]

Round 2, Poll 20

Water Thick-Knee vs Palawan Peacock-pheasant

sources under cut

Water Thick-Knee

eBird Sightings - 19,756

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: Africa - reported across large swaths of central and southern Africa

“It often nests next to or on top of crocodile nests. The thick-knee is the alarm system and attacks would-be nest raiders until the mother crocodile arrives and finishes the job.”

Palawan Peacock-pheasant

eBird Sightings - 323

IUCN Status - Vulnerable

Location: Philippines - Palawan Island

“Males are strikingly indigo, they have multiple spurs, and they stridulate using quills!”

Images: Thick-Knee (Stefan Thiel); Pheasant (Bruce Wedderburn)

Stats pulled from Birds of the World

[birdblues]

Eurasian Stone-curlew

[dansnaturepictures]

09/07/2024-Feral Pigeon and a lovely Great Tit young I believe in the garden, Collared Doves and view out the back and backlog photos processed tonight of a view at Knepp the other week and Stone Curlew on a North Hampshire Stone Curlew walk we went on in May.

It was good to see House Sparrow, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw and Magpie out the back too with the latter two enjoyed alongside Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Canada and Greylag Goose, Robin and Blackcap and Chiffchaff heard on a wet lunch time walk at Lakeside. White clover, pineappleweed, great willowherb, hogweed, dock and blackberries were plant highlights on the walk.

[etchif]

do you like my stone-curlew

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Double-striped Thick-knee

Photo: Allan Hopkins

"Large and bizarre shorebird of lowland dry grassland and savannas, usually found in pairs or small groups. Active mainly at night (note the big, yellow, owl-like eyes). During the daytime, usually seen standing or sitting quietly, often in the shade of small trees or bushes. Note cryptic, overall pale sandy plumage, double stripes on the head, and long yellow legs."

- eBird

[alonglistofbirds]

[1966/10977] Bush stone-curlew - Burhinus grallarius

Also known as: bush thick-knee

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Burhinidae (stone-curlews)

Photo credit: Rolo Rodsey via Macaulay Library

[redrcs]

Rainforest colours #13. various locations.

On my travels.

1. Black Butcherbird.

2. Stone Bush Curlew.

3. Osprey.

4. Forest Kingfisher.

[ikrutt]

Duckrabbit moment

@thornpuck's recent concept art made me realize that stone-curlews and hares are basically the same kind of animal.

[eyejuice]

Obsessed with this Bush Stone Curlew I saw at Cylinder Beach on Minjerribah/Stradbroke Island.

Sitting like a human, you do you lil guy.

[hey-hamlet]

Happy birthday Hamlet!! And congrats on the diagnosis (and the bird watching)!

Autism gang let's go<33

thank you!!! and for the bird, it was one of these funny little fellows, vitally important (hardly rare, but i love their funny muppet faces, and the fact they hiss at you)

[herpsandbirds]

Great Thick-Knee or Great Stone-Curlew (Esacus recurvirostris), family Burhinidae, order Charadriiformes, Wilpathu National Park Sri Lanka 

photograph by Vajira Gunasekera

[thornpuck]

We went on a late night picnic last night and these bush-stone-curlews were bugging us for our snacks. I wanted to capture their anxiety and heavily expressive eyes. I think the one in the middle looks more like a curlew than the other two but I would like it to have more fear-of-god in the eyes.

I want to build up to creating a sticker I can slap around Brisbane I think that'd be fun. And what better subject than everyone's favourite stilt chicken.

[birdblues]

Beach Thick-knee

[dansnaturepictures]

23/05/2024-View, gorgeous Marsh Fritillary, ragged Robin and female Orange Tip at Magdalen Hill and amazing Stone Curlew and Red Kite on a fantastic guided Stone Curlew walk in north Hampshire today on a day off.

Other highlights today were my first Green Hairstreaks, Small Blue, Common Blue (taking my butterfly year list to 22 with my bird year list up to 193 after seeing the Stone Curlew), Five-spot Burnet, fox-and-cubs, bird's-foot trefoil, and sainfoin of the year, Swallow, Spotted Flycatcher, Kestrel, Yellowhammer, Buzzard, Grizzled and Dingy Skipper, Brimstones, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Yellow Shell moth, cryptocephalus aureolus leaf beetle and pill woudlouse.

[antiqueanimals]

The Child's Picture Scrap Book. Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Illustrations by John Gilbert, J. D. Watson, Wolf, Coleman, etc. 1865.

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