Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrce15y
Specimens of the globally extinct Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia
Zlatozar N. Boev
orcid.org/0000-0002-8049-7509
; National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The earliest record of the Slender-billed Curlew in Bulgaria dates
back to 1682-1683. In the past, the species was observed during seasonal
migrations, in summer, and in winter. In the 20th century, all observations
were from four locations along the southern Bulgarian Black Sea
coast. The National Museum of Natural History in Sofia holds six stuffed
dry-mounted preparations of specimens of adult birds: four from Bulgaria
and two from European Turkey. Five of them were collected in the
last decades of the 19th century, and one in the second decade of the
20th century.
Keywords
Numenius tenuirostris; extinction; museum specimens
Hrčak ID:
339628
URI
Publication date:
10.11.2025.
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