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PLEASE! If you see any mistakes, I'm 100% sure that I have wrongly identified some birds.
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
  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 into South-east Asia. This species prefers gravel banks along rivers or large lakes, and also beaches. A single egg is laid in a bare scrape on the open shingle.  Distribution of Great stone-Curlew in dark green.
Beach stone-curlew in light green It is mainly nocturnal or crepuscular like other stone-curlews, but can frequently be seen foraging during the day, moving slowly and deliberately, with occasional short runs. It tends to be wary and flies off into the distance ahead of the observer, employing powerful, rather stiff wingbeats. The Great Thick-knee is a large wader at 49–55 cm, and has a massive 7 cm bill with the lower mandible with a sharp angle giving it an upturned appearance. It has unstreaked grey-brown upperparts and breast, with rest of the underparts whitish. The face has a striking black and white pattern, and the bill is black with a yellow base. The eyes are bright yellow and the legs a duller greenish-yellow. In flight, the Great Thick-knee shows black and white flight feathers on the upperwing, and a mainly white underwing. Sexes are similar, but young birds are slightly paler than adults. The call is a wailing whistle, given mainly at night, as with other birds in this family. The Great Thick-knee eats crabs, large insects, and other animal prey. Listen to the Great stone-Curlew
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
Conservation status
 Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 18 January 2016 Location: Ranthambhore, India Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same. I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever for his beautiful pictures. And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park. We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room. So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help. And from November 2018 I use eBird. Bird watching in U.A.E and Oman and my guide in Dubai recommended eBird and I have used the app since then and I note every bird I can identify in my eBird app.  Great stone-Curlew - 18 January 2016 - Ranthambhore, India
 Great stone-Curlew - 18 January 2016 - Ranthambhore, India
 Great stone-Curlew - 18 January 2016 - Ranthambhore, India
 Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka  Great stone-Curlew or Great Thick-knee
22 May 2017 - Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka PLEASE! If I have made any mistakes identifying any bird, PLEASE let me know on my guestbook 
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