| Bristle-thighed curlew | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Numenius |
| Species: | N. tahitiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Numenius tahitiensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Numenius femoralis | |
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[2] although some linguists like Robert Blust has proposed an alternate origin from Proto-Oceanic *kiwiwi, the Pacific golden plover, instead.[3]
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Numenius tahitiensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22693182A181357867. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22693182A181357867.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ "kiwi". Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. POLLEX-Online. 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010). "*kiwiwi: shore bird - sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved 8 November 2022.