Plains-wanderer

Family: PEDIONOMIDAE (Bonaparte 1856)

Genus: Pedionomus (Gould 1841)

• Pedionomus – Greek; pedionomus plain-dwelling (pedion plain; nomos habitation) (Gould 1841).

Further reading:

• A mythical Māori bird is gone, but its name still lives on (albeit in an extinct bird!)

Distribution

• Australasia; Plains-wanderer.

Current Taxonomy: Three species. Painted-snipes are closely related to jacanas and are commonly placed in a superfamily with them called Jacanoidea.

• Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus (Gould 1840)

Bibliography

• BirdLife International: IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/03/2020
• del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliot & Jordi Sargatal: Handbook of the Birds of the World – Vol. 3 (1996)
• Hayman, Peter, John Marchant & Tony Prater: Shorebirds – An identification guide to the waders of the world (1986)
• HBW Alive https://www.hbw.com/
• Jobling, James A.: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names (2010)
• Seebohm, Henry: The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or, The Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and Their Allies (1888)

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