English: Eurasian Curlew, Western Curlew       

Russian: Большой кроншнеп
Mongolian: Морин тутгалжин
German: Grosser Brachvogel
French: Courlis cendre
Japanese:  ダイシャクシギ (Daishaku-shigi)

Body length: 48-57 cm
Wing span: 86-106 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August 

Egg number: 4 (occasionally 3, 5)
Egg colour: Dull olive with dark olive or olive-brown spots, specks.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Insects, molluscs, crustaceans and small fishes.

Habitat: Mossy and grassy lowlands, flooded areas open wet meadows in mountain forests, forest steppe and in the valley of rivers. The nest is shallow hollow, lined with grasses placed on the ground among tall plants. On migration it occurs in open dry steppe and in the valleys of rivers lakes.