Great stone-curlew
| Great stone-curlew | |
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| Ranganathittu, Karnataka | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Burhinidae |
| Genus: | Esacus |
| Species: | E. recurvirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Esacus recurvirostris (Cuvier, 1829)
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E. recurvirostris range E. magnirostris range
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The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh into South-east Asia.