If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Long-Billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)

 11/17/02 Mission Bay, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

8/4/02 Tijuana Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, CA

1/17/05 Morro Strand State Beach, San Luis Obispo County, CA

1/17/05 Western Gull with Long-Billed Curlew. Morro Strand State Beach, San Luis Obispo County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Long-Billed Curlew

SPECIES: Numenius americanus

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/13/2002

LOCATION: Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, Orange County, CA

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 23"; extremely long downcurved bill, equal in length to more than half of the length of the body; crown finely streaked with brown; neck and underparts washed with cinnamon. Female has much longer bill than male. 

VOICE: A loud rising cur-lew. 
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