kolean.
/kəʊˈlɛː/ A local name for the Pacific golden plover, Pluvialis dominica fulva, which is native to the northern parts of North America and eastern Siberia, but winters in Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis dominica (American golden plover)
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1888 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1887 10 80 Charadrius dominicus fulvus (Gmel.) Pacific Golden Plover, Kolea.
1933 E. H. Bryan Hawaiian Nature Notes 256 The golden plover, called kolea by the Hawaiians, is a little larger than the mynah bird but longer in the leg.
1944 G. C. Munro Birds Hawaii 56 The kolea is a valuable bird to Hawaii as a destroyer of insects... Yet it has so long been considered a game bird and table delicacy that efforts to obtain the protection it deserves have not been very successful.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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