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Image: Tuamotu Sandpiper

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Description: English: Kiritimati Sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata cancellata), the nominate subspecies of the Tuamotu Sandpiper. The image shows a specimen of the Kiritimati population which is extinct since some time in the first half of the 19th century or possibly later due to introduced predators.
Title: Tuamotu Sandpiper
Credit: Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. By Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937). (https://archive.org/details/extinctbirdsatte00roth)
Author: George Edward Lodge, in a book by Lord Rothschild
Permission: Not in copyright (Public Domain), in the United States, but not its source country.
Usage Terms: Public domain in the United States
License: PD-US
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