great stone plover, The Great Stone-curlew or Great Thick-knee, ranganathittu bird sanctuary, Karnataka, India

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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

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Location: ranganathittu bird sanctuary, Karnataka, India
Photo credit: © John Bennet / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: bank, bird, great, india, karnataka, large, plover, ranganathittu, river, rocky, sanctuary, stone, stone-curlew, thick-knee, wader