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Tuamotu sandpiper

Tuamotu sandpiper (Prosobonia parvirostris/cancellata) is a wader endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. It's unusual by its diet as it feeds on nectar (very unusual for a wader) of Scaevola taccada (in the picture) and the tree Cordia subcordata. Illustration for a Czech Wader study group bulletin Vanellus. 5/2015