Eurasian Curlew

Numenius arquata

344,007Records since 2000

OctoberPeak month

125Counties with records

Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan31,932

Feb26,165

Mar32,922

Apr32,853

May24,554

Jun20,729

Jul24,261

Aug30,152

Sep33,969

Oct36,917

Nov24,642

Dec22,232

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

#	County	Nation	Records
1	Cambridgeshire	England	18,201
2	Norfolk	England	16,533
3	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	13,346
4	Kent	England	11,545
5	Suffolk	England	11,173
6	Shetland Islands	—	11,072
7	Highland	Scotland	10,987
8	South Ayrshire	Scotland	8,037
9	North Yorkshire	England	7,646
10	East Lothian	Scotland	7,352
11	Lincolnshire	England	7,288
12	Essex	England	6,698
13	Cornwall	England	6,371
14	Orkney Islands	Scotland	6,078
15	Devon	England	5,720

245,773 England77,703 Scotland16,293 Wales3,639 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

Records since 2000: 344,007
Peak month: October
Counties with records: 125
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
Scientific name: Numenius arquata
Group: Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000: 214,318
Most recorded in: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kent, Suffolk, Shetland Islands, Highland, South Ayrshire, North Yorkshire, East Lothian, Lincolnshire, Essex +86
Conservation designations: Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Numenius
Name with authority: Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described: 1758
Contributing datasets: 62