Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Eastern Curlew, Shoalhaven Heads, NSW

Eastern Curlew, Shoalhaven Heads, NSW

Museums

Regional Maps

CAVS: 0149

Species Numenius (Numenius) madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Eastern Curlew

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Migrant from Siberian and Manchurian moorland and bogs, widespread but patchy along Australian coastline


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, grassland, lake, mangrove, mudflat, salt marsh, tidal sandbar.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 25-Oct-2022 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)