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Thursday, August 1, 2024

JUVENILE EURASIAN CURLEW, MUSSELBURGH, EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, 7/17/2024 - NEW LIFE SPECIES

   We can ID the large wader in the first two photos as a juvenile Eurasian Curlew as follows:
  • Upperparts are brown with whitish streaking
  • What we can see of the underparts is white with dark streaking
  • Long, downcurved, dark bill with pinkish base of the lower mandible
  • Dark eye with whitish eyering
  • Indistinct whitish supercillium 
   The Eurasian Curlew is a new species to our ebird Photographic Life List.





 



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