Moorea sandpiper
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moorea-sandpiper-195-464889
title:
Moorea sandpiper
text:
The Moorea Sandpiper is an extinct member of the large wader family Scolopacidae that was endemic to Mo'orea in French Polynesia, where the locals called it te-te in the Tahitian language. Two specimens were collected by Georg Forster and William Anderson between September 30 and October 11, 1777, during Captain Cook's third voyage, but both have since disappeared and the bird became extinct in the nineteenth century. Several drawings of the bird were made by those accompanying Cook on his voyag
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct species of sandpiper
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorea_sandpiper
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-12T05:55:24Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/White-winged_Sandpiper.jpg","width":328,"height":263}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15