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Greater Stone-curlews
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Greater Stone-curlews

Esacus

Esacus is a genus of bird in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus is distributed from Pakistan and India to Australia. It contains two species, the great stone-curlew and the beach stone-curlew.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Beach Stone-curlew

speciesEsacus magnirostris

Great Stone-curlew

speciesEsacus recurvirostris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4918.