Christmas sandpiper

The Christmas sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata) was a small shorebird. It became extinct some time in the first half of the 19th century. It was endemic to Kiritimati (or Christmas) Island in Kiribati. It is known solely from a single contemporaneous illustration (by William Wade Ellis), and a description by William Anderson, both made during the third circumnavigation voyage commanded by Captain James Cook, which vsited the island of Kiritimati between 24 December 1777 and 2 January 1778.[2]

  • William Ellis' image

Christmas sandpiper
1907 illustration by George Edward Lodge

Extinct  (c.1800?)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Prosobonia
Species:
†P. cancellata
Binomial name
†Prosobonia cancellata
JF Gmelin, 1789
Synonyms

Tringa cancellata Gmelin, 1789
Aechmorhynchus cancellatus
Prosobonia cancellatus Collar and Andrew, 1988
Prosobonia cancellata

References
  1. Birdlife International (2014). "Prosobonia cancellata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Jansen, Justin J.F.J.; Cibois, Alice (22 June 2020). "Clarifying the morphology of the enigmatic Kiritimati Sandpiper Prosobonia cancellata (J. F. Gmelin, 1785), based on a review of the contemporary data". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 140 (1): 142-146. doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a4.


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