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Tuamotu Sandpiper
Prosobonia parvirostris (Peale, 1849)
Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
Tuamotu Sandpiper Prosobonia parvirostris is a bird of the Tuamotu Islands in eastern Polynesia, where it breeds on undisturbed atolls. It is a small member of the sandpiper family with short wings and a short, sharp bill. Its plumage is mottled brown with barred underparts, and two colour forms are known. It lives on open ground, shores, beaches and scrub, and is less often found in Pandanus thickets. The species is threatened by introduced rats and by habitat loss linked to coconut cultivation, and it now survives on only a few rat-free islands.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Tuamotu Is. (e Polynesia)
