Laurie,
In the Photographic Guide to Shorebirds of the World the Great
thick-kne and the Beach thick-knee are described as stone-curlews but
not named as such.
Peter
On Friday, April 6, 2007, at 08:00 PM, L&L Knight wrote:
G'day Greg,
You will find that the Bible, in the form of Shorebirds, refers to the
birds in question as Bush Thick-knees, as I suspect, does the The
Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. If you have a look at
http://www.oceanwanderers.com/Shorebirds.html that there are a group
of other species that also rejoice in the moniker of Thick-knee - the:
Senegal Thick-knee (Burhinus senegalensis) Range: central Africa
Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus) Range: C America,
Northern S America, Caribbean
Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris) Range: coastal Peru, S
America
Great Thick-knee Esacus (Burhinus recurvirostris) Range: India,
Malaysia
Beach Thick-knee Esacus (Burhinus magnirostris) Range: from southern
Malaysia through Australia.
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