An illustration of a Slender-billed Curlew. Over part of the top of the image, there is a red graphic and white text which says 'extinct' in all capital letters.

Slender-billed Curlew declared extinct

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A paper published today, Monday 18th November, confirms the global extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). A close relation of the Eurasian Curlew (N. arquata), the last reliable sighting of the Slender-billed Curlew was in Morocco in February 1995, despite dedicated searches by ornithologists. The new paper is a collaboration between scientists from the […]

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