The Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris is one of Europe's most endangered and least-known migratory birds. It breeds in central Asian USSR, and is a long-distance migrant to Northwest Africa and perhaps also to Iran and Iraq. Less than a century ago, it was still abundant as a passage and wintering bird in southern Europe and northern Africa, but numbers are now believed to be very small.
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