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The White-winged Sandpiper, Prosobonia leucoptera, is an extinct member of the large wader family Scolopacidae, that is endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia.

It was discovered on Tahiti in 1773 during Captain Cook’sJames Cook ( October 27, 1728 February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and navigator. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, in which its main shorelines were discovered. Cook was also a map maker. Introduction Cook was born in Marton in Cleveland, voyage, but became extinct in the nineteenth century. Only one museum specimen is known to exist.

It was small mottled brown sandpiper with a short sharp black beakThe beak otherwise known as the bill is the only device a bird has for consuming food. Birds have no teeth so they must swallow their food whole. A bird's beak can vary in size and shape depending on the nature of their diet. Some birds such as the falcon more like that of an insectivorousAny organism with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures is an insectivore . Although individually small, insects exist in enormous numbers and make up a very large part of the animal biomass in almost all non-marine environme passerineMany, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes . More than half of all species of bird are passerines. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds the passerines are one of the most spectacularly successful v than a wader. It was similar in size and structure to the endangered Tuamotu SandpiperTuamotu Sandpiper : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : Prosobonia cancellata Binomial name Prosobonia cancellata ( Gmelin, 1789) The Tuamotu Sandpiper Prosobonia cancellata is an endangered member of the large wader family Scolo, but had unbarred reddish underparts, a white spot behind the eye, a white chin and a white wingbar.

The White-winged Sandpiper is believed to have occurred near small streams.