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Esacus magnirostris (beach stone curlew)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) also known as beach thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia. At 55 cm (22 in) and 1 kg (2.2 lb), it is one of the world's largest shorebirds. At a mean of 1,032 g (2.275 lb) in males and 1,000 g (2.2 lb) in females, it the heaviest living member of the Charadriiformes outside of the gull and skua families. A single egg is laid just above the high tide line on the open beach, where it is vulnerable to predation and human disturbance.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.222 lbs (1.008 kg)
Male Weight [3]  2.275 lbs (1.032 kg)
Clutch Size [2]  1

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Mictyris longicarpus (light-blue soldier crab)[4]
Mictyris platycheles[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Charadrius bicinctus (Double-banded Plover)1
Numenius madagascariensis (Far Eastern Curlew)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3Marchant, S.; Higgins, PJ (eds.) 1993. The handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Vol. 2., raptors to lapwings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 4Mellish, Graham F and Rohweder, David A. Reconstructing the diet of the beach stone-curlew 'Esacus magnirostris' using scat analysis. Australian Field Ornithology, Vol. 29, No. 4, Dec 2012: 201-209
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0