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Great Thick-knee

Esacus recurvirostris

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Sundarbans National Park
3 Verified records at Sundarbans National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh into South-east Asia. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Sundarbans National Park

Common Sandpiper
LC

Common Sandpiper

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Actitis hypoleucos

70–80% · Very likely
Whimbrel
LC

Whimbrel

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Numenius phaeopus

70–80% · Very likely
Eurasian Curlew
NT

Eurasian Curlew

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Numenius arquata

60–70% · Likely
Common Redshank
LC

Common Redshank

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Tringa totanus

50–60% · Likely
Little Tern
LC

Little Tern

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Sternula albifrons

20–30% · With luck
Terek Sandpiper
LC

Terek Sandpiper

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Xenus cinereus

10–20% · With luck
Greater Sandplover
LC

Greater Sandplover

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Charadrius leschenaultii

10–20% · With luck
Brown-headed Gull

Brown-headed Gull

Bird

Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus

5–10% · With luck
Grey-headed Lapwing
LC

Grey-headed Lapwing

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Vanellus cinereus

5–10% · With luck
Pacific Golden-Plover
LC

Pacific Golden-Plover

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Pluvialis fulva

5–10% · With luck
Bronze-winged Jacana
LC

Bronze-winged Jacana

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Metopidius indicus

5–10% · With luck
Red-wattled Lapwing
LC Endemic

Red-wattled Lapwing

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Vanellus indicus

5–10% · With luck

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Great Thick-knee at Sundarbans National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
30–40%
2 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
30–40%
3 Ranthambore National Park 🇮🇳 India
20–30%
4 Kaziranga National Park 🇮🇳 India
5–10%
5 Satpura National Park 🇮🇳 India
5–10%
6 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
5–10%
7 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
8 Keoladeo National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
9 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
10 Bandhavgarh National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
11 Sundarbans National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
12 Chitwan National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
Insufficient data
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