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kuaka N.Z.|ˈkwakə|
[Maori.]
The bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica.
1873W. L. Buller Hist. Birds N.Z. 198 Limosa baueri. (Barred-rumped godwit.)... Native name.—Kuaka. 1882W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 222 The Kuaka..is the bird spoken of as ‘curlew’ and ‘grey snipe’ by colonists. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 252 These thoughts flow through my brain like a covey of kuaka (snipe). 1966Encycl. N.Z. I. 819/1 In New Zealand the great majority of our migrant birds are waders, and the best known and most abundant of these is the eastern race of the bar-tailed godwit, the kuaka of the Maori (Limosa lapponica). |