Tahiti Sandpiper vs American Woodcock

Prosobonia leucoptera comparado com Scolopax minor

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Tahiti Sandpiper American Woodcock
Nome científico Prosobonia leucoptera Scolopax minor
Ordem Charadriiformes Charadriiformes
Família Scolopacidae Scolopacidae
Estado de conservação Extinct Least Concern
Comprimento
Envergadura 26,0 cm (10.2 in)
Peso 192,0 g (6.77 oz)
Dieta -- --
Tamanho da postura -- 3-4
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Habitats partilhados

Nenhum

Tahiti Sandpiper only

Nenhum

American Woodcock only

Estado de conservação

Extinct

Tahiti Sandpiper

Least Concern

American Woodcock

About These Birds

Tahiti Sandpiper

Tahiti Sandpiper: 18–20 cm, extinct sandpiper once endemic to Tahiti, French Polynesia. Known from a few 18th-century specimens collected during Cook's voyages. Pale with white wing-patches. Extinct by the mid-19th century; likely eliminated by rats and cats introduced with European contact. EX.

American Woodcock

American Woodcock: 25–31 cm, rotund crepuscular wader with cryptic dead-leaf plumage, large eyes set high on the head, and an extremely long flexible bill for probing earthworms. Inhabits moist woodland and shrubby margins in eastern North America; winters in southern US. Famous for spiralling courtship 'sky dance.' Migratory.

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