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Species
Near Threatenedbristle-thighed curlew
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyScolopacidae
Habitatmarine
Maximum longevity: 23.8 years (wild)
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Numenius tahitiensis
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- Numenius tahitiensis
- taxon common name
- maçarico-do-pacífico
- wingspan
- 84
- short name
- N. tahitiensis
- taxon range
- Indonesia
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Encyclopedic overview
The bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) is a medium-sized shorebird that breeds in Alaska and winters on tropical Pacific islands.
It is known in Mangareva as kivi or kivikivi and in Rakahanga as kihi; it is said to be the origin of the name for the New Zealand flightless bird kiwi although some linguists like Robert Blust has proposed an alternate origin from Proto-Oceanic *kiwiwi, the Pacific golden plover, instead.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bristle-thighed Curlew” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.