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76 Kiribati words

• eitei
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier frigate bird.
  • Goo & Banner lesser frigate bird (aa).
  • Goo & Banner Greater frigate bird, Pacific frigate bird (aa) (The adult male is dark brown to black all over, with a bluish grey bill and black, brown or pink feet. It is the darkest bird of either species and is thus easily identified. The female has a dark brown or blackish head, neck and upperparts and abdomen, but the throat and breast are white. Immatures have white or rusty colored heads and patches of white on the breast and abdomen; by the shape of these patches it is possible to tell whether the bird is a male or female.).
• io
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier a bird, brown noddy (tern).
  • Goo & Banner <bird>.
• mangkiri
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier a bird, species of Black Noddy.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> black noddy (Its general color is very black with a noticeable contrasting white crown and forehead and a white semicircle under the eye. The bill is black and the feet dark brown, almost black.).
• karakara
  • Bingham a bird, the.
  • Sabatier a bird.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> crested tern (The crown and nape are black with elongated feathers from the nape forming a crest from which the bird is named. The upperparts are light and dark greys while the neck and underparts are white. The feet are blackish with dark webs. A conspicuous feature which helps identify this bird is the large yellow bill. It dives for fish from a considerable height, and is often seen hovering over the lagoon shallows uttering the harsh cry from which the Gilbertese name is obtained.) (aa).
• kiriri
  • Bingham a bird.
  • Sabatier long legged plover (Sandpiper), <bird>.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> wandering tattler (The bird is dark grey above and has soft bluish-grey wavy lines on a pale grey or whitish background on the underparts; The bill is fairly long, straight and dark grey, while the legs are dull. There is a conspicuous light superciliary streak and a dark grey eye streak from the base of the bill.) (aa).
• kewe
  • Bingham a bird, the.
  • Sabatier (1) a bird (Bristle thighed Curlew).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> bristle thighed curlew (Adults have the upperparts speckled with light and dark browns; The underparts are pale buff, almost white under the tail; The plumage has a distinct rufous tinge, and in summer breeding males have stronger reddish-brown on the neck and breast. There is a pale line along the midcrown and another above each eye and a dark brown line through each eye so that the head has a very striped appearance; The bill is pink at the base... to grey towards the tip, curved strongly downwards and 4-5 inches long; The legs are long, steely blue-grey in color and there is a short hind toe.) (aa).
• korobaro
  • Bingham a bird, the.
  • Sabatier a large sea bird (wedge tailed shearwater).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> wedge tailed shearwater (This is a large dark bird with upperparts dark chocolate-brown blackish on the primaries and tail. The tail is rather long and wedgeshaped. The underparts undergo color phases during the... that sometimes they are greyish brown and sometimes white. The bill is pinkish with a darker tip, and the feet are yellowish flesh color or whitish.) (aa).
• kun
  • Bingham a bird, the.
  • Sabatier a bird (Pacific Golden Ploverr).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> pacific golden plover (The golden plover is also a common bird; Although a few may be seen all the year round the greatest numbers are present from October to April. There is a marked difference between summer and winter plumages. In October and November when the birds arrive from the north they are noticeably thin after the long journey and pale in color, the underparts being almost white. By Aprilthey are plump and show conspicuous black breasts with...y pale stripe over the eye and down the sides of the neck and body. The upper wings, back and tail are darkish brown mottled and edged with fawn and golden yellow. The bill is dark grey, about an inch long; The legs are long and slender, light...sh grey in color; There are only three toes.) (aa).
• makitaba
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier a large bird.
• matawanaba
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier sea swallow or white noddy. <bird>.
• moto
  • Bingham bird.
  • Sabatier a small bird living in taro pits (very rare).
• mouakena
  • Bingham bird.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> blue faced booby, Masked gannet (The Blue-faced booby is seldom seen in the Gilbert and Ellice groups. An occasional one is picked up by parties on fishing groups. The adult is a large white bird with contr... dark brown primaries and tail feathers. The bill has a horn-colored tip, the base being orange-yellow in males and pinkish in females. There is a conspicuous patch of dark blue skin on the face and throat.) (aa).
• kitiba
  • Bingham a bird,the,a variety of snipe or sand piper.
  • Sabatier a bird.
• naru
  • Bingham the bird.
  • Sabatier Ten Naru: a frigate bird rarely seen.
• bairakau
  • Bingham a bird, the.
  • Sabatier 1. frigate bird or other with large wings.
• nna
  • Sabatier a bird. dusky shearwater.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> dusky shearwater, Audobon's shearwater (This is the smallest of the local shearwaters. It is dark sooty brownish black above with white underparts. The under tail-coverts are black and the sides of the breast... The bill is short and black, with the feet flesh or yellowish.) (aa).
• unounobaraki
  • Bingham bird.
• bairuti
  • Sabatier a bird.
• kibwi
  • Bingham a bird.
• kitibakun
  • Bingham a bird.
• kitibharano
  • Bingham a bird.
• tairo
  • Sabatier a bird.
• kitibakua
  • Bingham a bird, the.
• tanguoua
  • Bingham a bird, the.
• tiriwenei
  • Bingham a bird, the.
• tangiuoua
  • Sabatier a bird, Phoenix petrel.
• kiakia
  • Bingham name of a bird.
  • Sabatier a bird (Black naped Tern).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> black naped tern (This small tern is easily distinguished by the black band around the head above the eyes and extending down the nape. Except for the mantle and upper wings, which are a very pale grey, most of the... s white. The primary wing feathers often have dark grey or blackish tips; The bill and feet are black, and the webs also black. The crown is white. Young birds in immature plumage have somewhat darker mottled coloring.) (aa).
• kabanei
  • Bingham a land bird, the.
  • Sabatier a bird with long tail, N.Z. swallow, the only bird in the islands living entirely on the land.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> long tailed New Zealand cuckoo (aa).
• kai
  • Bingham a bird with long legs, the.
  • Sabatier te kai: <bird> crane, heron.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> reef heron (aa).
• ngutu
  • Sabatier Te ngutu a white sea bird.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> white tailed tropic bird (This bird may be easily distinguished from the red tailed species by its two long central tail streamers, which are pure white and not as narrow as the red ones. The next adjacent feathers are also fairly long and there are eight shorter tail feathers, making twelve in all. There is more black on the wings and flanks with the rest of the plumage mainly white with or without the roseate tinge; The black eyestreaks are not so heavy. The bill is yellowish, base greyish; The legs and bases of the toes are yellowish or flesh color and the rest of the feet black.) (aa).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> white tailed tropic bird (This bird may be easily distinguished from the red tailed species by its two long central tail streamers, which are pure white and not as narrow as the red ones. The next adjacent feathers are also fairly long and there are eight shorter tail feathers, making twelve in all. There is more black on the wings and flanks with the rest of the plumage mainly white with or without the roseate tinge; The black eyestreaks are not so heavy. The bill is yellowish, base greyish; The legs and bases of the toes are yellowish or flesh color and the rest of the feet black.) (aa).
• kaka
  • Bingham abird, the.
  • Sabatier a wading bird.
• kura
  • Sabatier a small bird.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> parakeet (This very pretty bird is common on Fanning and Washington but has not been reported from Christmas. It is about 7 inches long; The forehead and crow are green; Back of head and neck dark blue; back green to yellowish-green at the tail; Underparts red, with purple on the abdomen and yellowish green under the tail; Wing greenish above, blackish below; Bill and feet are red.) (aa).
• man
  • Bingham animal, bird.
  • Sabatier man ni kiba: birds.
• tarangongo
  • Sabatier stern <bird>.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> grey backed tern (The adult is similar in build to the sooty tern but slightly smaller and the upper parts are soft grey instead of sooty black; The underparts are white and the feet and bill black. The head is... except for a white forehead and a white band extending back above each eye.) (aa).
• nikunikun
  • Bingham name of a bird.
  • Sabatier species of small (kun) bird. red necked stint.
• matuku
  • Sabatier <bird> a species of crane, reef crane.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> reef heron (aa).
• take
  • Sabatier a bird (Phaeton) with two red feathers in tail (Phaeton rubriacuda mela norhynchos), rarely seen in Gilbert Islands, sign, omen of death for person of clan of which it is totem.
  • Goo & Banner red tailed tropic bird (aa).
• kibui
  • Sabatier a big sea bird (Brown Booby).
  • Goo & Banner <bird> brown booby (Single birds or small groups are often seen flying around lagoons or resting on beacons or buoys. The adult is dark chocholate-brown on the upperparts and breast, white on the abdomen, underwing and coverts. The bill is pale bluish or yellowish, with greenish-yellow on the skin of the face. The legs, feet and webs are also greenish-yellow.) (aa).
• tinebu
  • Sabatier te tinebu: a bird, Christmas Shearwater.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> Christmas Island shearwater.
• keu
  • Sabatier a species of bird (Sooty Tern) which cries keu! keu!.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> sooty tern (The sooty tern is a rare bird in the Gilberts and Ellice groups, there being small colonies at Funafuti, Nonouti and Kuria. The adult bird has a broad white band on the forehead extending above the... The crown, nape and upper parts are dull sooty black, white underparts with some greyish feathers under the tail. The bill and feet are black.) (aa).
• matawa
  • Sabatier a bird (Gyges alba candeda), love tern, fairy tern, angel tern.
  • Goo & Banner <bird> white tern, love tern, fairy tern, angle tern (This beautiful little white tern is fairly common on all islands except Arorae, where surprisingly it is not present at all; Pairs of birds will usually be seen h... near pandanus trees or playing on the branches. They are usually distinguished by their pure white color and arboreal habits. The shafts of the primaries are dusky brown and of the tail feathers, most are black. The prominent eyes... arrow black ring around them.) (aa).
• maningongo
  • Sabatier a sea bird.
• taobe
  • Sabatier a dove <bird>.
• mannaba
  • Sabatier a bird (myth.).
• kaite
  • Bingham the kite (bird).
• tarakura
  • Sabatier male frigate bird.
• baokan
  • Goo & Banner a falcon <bird> (k).
• kuren
  • Bingham the crane ( a bird).
• awaro
  • Sabatier a bird (Phoenix Is.).
• kabinwa
  • Sabatier albatross (?) <bird>.
• rarario
  • Bingham to descend as a bird.
• ubaitoi
  • Sabatier a young frigate bird.
• uboi
  • Bingham hoopoe [crested bird].
• tau
  • Goo & Banner <bird> partridge tun (ja).
• tangiuaoua
  • Goo & Banner <bird> phoenix petrel (aa).
• ketoa
  • Sabatier (2) Nei Ketoa: myth, bird.
• katabataba
  • Bingham to call a bird for ensnaring.
• keta
  • Goo & Banner <bird> red footed booby (aa).
• nama
  • Bingham enter a snare noose as a bird.
• kakibakiba
  • Bingham to engage in making a bird to fly.
• uba mara
  • Sabatier a species of frigate bird (unplumed).
• karabu
  • Sabatier a large sea bird, black with red beak.
• moa
  • Goo & Banner <bird> jungle fowl; domestic fowl (aa).
• kota
  • Sabatier a large bird makitaba (Red footed Booby).
• tarangotu
  • Sabatier a bird (phaeton) with yellow beak and tail.
• titiku
  • Bingham frequentative of tiku to light as a bird.
• ubaroro
  • Sabatier a species of frigate bird with black chest.
• tapuku
  • Goo & Banner <bird> dusky shearwater; Audubon's shearwater (aa).
• tang
  • Bingham to cry, to weep, to crow, to mew, to sing as a bird.
• koroangutungutu
  • Sabatier phaeton <bird> with yellow beak and two long tail feathers of same colour.
• karara
  • Bingham to caw as a bird, to engage in chanting, before the performance of an incantation.
• monuakena
  • Sabatier a large bird (marked gannet, blue faced booby, common in Phoenix Islands), walks majestically.
• bokikokiko
  • Goo & Banner <bird> warbler (The upper parts are greyish with whitish tips to the feathers; The underparts are mostly whitish, tinged with pale grey on the sides and with pale yellow on the breast; The legs and feet are grey and the bill blackish above, flesh colored below.) (aa).
• bwebwenimarawa
  • Goo & Banner <bird> white throated storm petrel (The adult is sooty black to greyish black above with a noticeable white patch across the rump and a sooty band across the breast; The throat, lower breast and abdomen are white, and the underwings smoky-white; The tail is long and deeply forked, and the bill black.) (aa).
• rube
  • Goo & Banner <bird> Pacific pigeon (The upper wings and back are grey with a greenish sheen and some brownish tints; The head, neck and underparts are light pearly grey with pinkish tints on the underparts; The under tail-coverts are reddish (...) and the underwings grey. The bill is dark grey to black and there is a characteristic large soft operculum or cere at the base. The feet are bright coral red.) (aa).
• bitin (taobe)
  • Goo & Banner ground dove (The coloring is typically darkish grey and white; The head, neck, back and upper breast are grey with a purplish and greenish sheen or irridescence; The secondary wing feathers are mainly dark grey and the primaries and tail feathers mainly white; The abdomen is white, often speckled with grey and the under tail-coverts, white. The short bill is dark grey with a small whitish operculum at the base; The legs and feet are coral red, or purplish red. Some birds have less white than others, and hardly any two are exactly alike) <bird> (aa).