Eurasian Stone-curlew

Scientific Name: Burhinus oedicnemus

Eurasian Stone-curlew Fact File

Distribution: western and south-western Europe

Conservation Status: Least Concern

Subspecies: Five

• B. o. oedicnemus – western and southern Europe to the Balkans, Ukraine and Caucasus
• B. o. distinctus – western Canary Islands
• B. o. insularum – eastern Canary Islands
• B. o. saharae – northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands to Iraq and Iran
• B. o. harterti – western Kazakhstan to Pakistan and north-western India

Further reading:

• British Summer-visiting Breeding Waders

Current conservation efforts

None

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