Endangered
Tuamotu Sandpiper
Prosobonia parvirostris
The Tuamotu sandpiper is an endangered member of the large wader family Scolopacidae, that is endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia.
Appearance
The 15.5–16.5 cm (6.1–6.5 in) long Tuamotu sandpiper is a small, short-winged, mottled brown bird with more or less barred underparts. Its short sharp beak is more like that of an insectivorous passerine than a wader. There are two colour morphs that intergrade.
Range and habitat
The species has been recorded in modern times from the following atolls, listed from northwest to southeast: Rangiroa, Niau, Kauehi and Fakarava in the Palliser Islands. Raraka, Katiu, Tahanea, Tuanake, Hiti and Tepoto (Ofiti) in the Raeffsky Islands, The Tuamotu sandpiper is an endangered member of the large wader family Scolopacidae, that is endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia.
The Tuamotu sandpiper is an endangered member of the large wader family Scolopacidae, that is endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It breeds at different times on different islands, generally between April and June. One two-egg clutch is in the American Museum of Natural History collection (specimen AMNH 5299).
In crisis
Tuamotu Sandpiper is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Tuamotu Sandpiper, Wikidata item Q12252811. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
