- Prosobonia parvirostris
Identification
15.5-16.5 cm. Mottled brown, barred underparts. Brown iris, black bill, yellow to olive grey legs and feet. Sexes similiar.
Pale birds are medium brown above and white below, light barring or spotting on the breast and whitish streaking on the head, white supercilium and chin, brown rectrices with white tips and white triangular markings on the outer webs.
Dark phase birds, darker brown and white with light buff or tawny white, brown flanks, brown barred underparts.
Distribution
The Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. Only 1200 individuals are estimated in the population.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with the extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper.
Habitat
Beaches of coral rubble and sand, shrubland and interior of forests.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and other invertebrates and more surprising also nectar, seeds, and other plant material. Feeding takes place in scrubs and trees as well as from the ground.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Dickinson EC (ed.) 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 9780691117010
- Sibley CG & Monroe BL. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
- Hansen, J. (2010). Dansk Ornitologisk Forenings Tidsskrift (DOFT) 104:9-10
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Tuamotu Sandpiper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Tuamotu_Sandpiper
