- Esacus
Taxobox
name = Esacus
image_caption =Beach Stone-curlew
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Charadriiformes
familia =Burhinidae
genus = "Esacus"
genus_authority = Lesson, 1831
range_
range_map_caption = Light green shows distribution of E. giganteus. Dark green for E. recurvirostris"Esacus" is a genus of
bird in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus is distributed fromPakistan andIndia toAustralia .It contains two species.
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Great Thick-knee ("Esacus recurvirostris")
*Beach Stone-curlew ("Esacus giganteus")
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