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Oriental Curlews in Western Europe: identification and status
Guillermo Rodríguez & Marcel Gil-Velasco Guillermo Rodríguez & Marcel Gil-Velasco

Oriental Curlews in Western Europe: identification and status

In this post, we review the geographical variation of Eurasian Curlew across its breeding and wintering range and show how orientalis of putative Central Asian origin regularly overwinter in West Africa, and a few of them pass through Western Europe on migration. We also discuss the identification of this Asian birds (both orientalis and intergrades) and show multiple examples from Spain.

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