Burhinus oedicnemus
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In 3 days ~10%
The Eurasian stone-curlew, Eurasian thick-knee, or simply stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), is a northern species of the Burhinidae (stone-curlew) bird family. The Eurasian stone-curlew was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Charadrius oedicnemus. He specified the locality as England. The name Oedicnemus had been used earlier by the French naturalist Pierre Belon in 1655. The species is now placed in the genus Burhinus that was introduced by the German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811. The genus name combines the Greek bous meaning "ox" with rhis meaning "nose". The species name oedicnemus combines the Greek oidio meaning "to swell", and kneme meaning "shin" or "leg", referring to the bird's prominent tibiotarsal joints, which also give it the common name of "thick-knee". This is an abbreviated form of Thomas Pennant's 1776 coinage "thick-kneed bustard".
The name "stone curlew" was recorded by Francis Willughby in 1678 as a "third sort of Godwit, which in Cornwall they call the Stone-Curlew, differing from the precedent in that it hath a much shorter and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 2 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 5 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 7 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natura Artis Magistra | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 2 | Zoo Hluboka | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 3 | Tier- und Freizeitpark Thüle | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Tbilisi Zoo | 🇬🇪 Georgia | |
| 5 | Oasi Naturalistica di Sant'Alessio | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 6 | Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 7 | Santillana Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 8 | Alpenzoo Innsbruck | 🇦🇹 Austria | |
| 9 | akwarium warszawskiego ZOO | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 10 | Ogród zoologiczny w Lubinie | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Eurasian Stone-curlew sighting in Camargue on a given day, based on 33 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 154th most-seen of the 212 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Eurasian Stone-curlew in Camargue on a given day, against under 5% in August to June, the lowest months. That is one of Camargue's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 90 mm in October.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eurasian Stone-curlew sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
4th of 7
Of the 7 parks where we can rate Eurasian Stone-curlew sightings, Camargue ranks 4th at under 5%. The best odds are in Kiskunság National Park (Hungary, about 10%), Cévennes National Park (France, under 5%) and Doñana National Park (Spain, under 5%).
Same order: Charadriiformes
The closest relatives of the Eurasian Stone-curlew that you can see in Camargue (order Charadriiformes, Shorebirds and Allies) are Black-headed Gull (about 70%), Yellow-legged Gull (about 70%) and Black-winged Stilt (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eurasian Stone-curlew is recorded against all the birds logged in Camargue (33 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
