Polynesian Sandpipers
Prosobonia
The two to four species of Polynesian sandpipers, the only members of the genus Prosobonia, are small wading birds confined to remote Pacific islands of French Polynesia. Only one species now exists, and it is rare and little known. This bird is sometimes separated in the genus Aechmorhynchus, restricting the genus to the extinct southern forms.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
Tuamotu Sandpiper
speciesProsobonia parvirostris
White-winged Sandpiper
speciesProsobonia leucoptera
Moorea Sandpiper
speciesProsobonia ellisi
Kiritimati Sandpiper
speciesProsobonia cancellata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3982.