Species profile
Tahiti Sandpiper
Prosobonia leucoptera
Quick answer
extinct; formerly Tahiti (Society Islands)
- Scientific name
- Prosobonia leucoptera
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Prosobonia
- Conservation status
- Extinct
Recording Tahiti Sandpiper in your journal
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