太平洋杓鹬

分类位置

同属物种

极北杓鹬

Eskimo Curlew

白腰杓鹬

Eurasian Curlew

中杓鹬

Eurasian Whimbrel

大杓鹬

Far Eastern Curlew

美洲中杓鹬

Hudsonian Whimbrel

小杓鹬

Little Curlew

形态与习性

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.