Well, there you have it. Goodbye Slender-billed Curlew.
Official declaration by the IUCN won't happen yet, they'll consider the findings of this paper and make a decision on reclassification.
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Official declaration by the IUCN won't happen yet, they'll consider the findings of this paper and make a decision on reclassification.
🧪🦤🦉
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Curlew Action
The Slender-billed Curlew is gone. A paper published today concluded that there is a 99.6% chance that the species is extinct, likely dying off around the time of the last irrefutable sighting in 1995.
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Comments
The existences of the Slender-billed Curlew and I overlapped by only a few years, and the Eskimo Curlew was likely extinct already when I was born.
The latest Curlew Action webinars are filled with reports of few Eurasian Curlew chicks being fledged (tho there are some positive stories), the Eastern Curlew seems to be particularly in danger, and we seem to know so little about the Little Curlew.