Pagham Harbour. Tricky to tell males and females apart unless next to one-another. Females are larger and have longer bills. I suspect this may be a male.

Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) (15/06/2007) Pagham Harbour. Tricky to tell males and females apart unless next to one-another. Females are larger and have longer bills. I suspect this may be a male.

Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) (15/06/2007) Pagham Harbour. Probably also a male.

Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) (15/06/2007) Pagham Harbour. And again!

Pagham Harbour. I think this may be a female as the bill is specactularly long - males are still long but shorter and therefore less curved.

Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) (16/12/2005) Pagham Harbour. I think this may be a female as the bill is specactularly long - males are still long but shorter and therefore less curved.

Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) (16/12/2005) Pagham Harbour. The same bird, probably a female.