Numenius americanus

The long-billed curlew is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae. This species was also called "sicklebird" and the "candlestick bird". The species breeds in central and western North America, migrating southward and coastward for the winter.

Numenius americanus

Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
long-billed curlewPBDB
Sits inside
NumeniusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Mass
758.6 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 14 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 210 ka to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 8 of 26 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 18 of 26 occurrences213 ka–189 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189 ka–166 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166 ka–142 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142 ka–118 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118 ka–95 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence95 ka–71 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence71 ka–47 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence47 ka–24 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence24 ka–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences14 ka – 11.7 ka710 ka0 Mya

26 occurrences of Numenius americanus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

26 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in the same rock

397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Numenius americanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

9 references

Each of the 26 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Numenius americanus

Credit
Frank Schulenburg
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Numenius americanus · FMNH:Birds:106289

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNumenius through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bechstein 1812