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tahitiensis, the bristle-thighed curlew, a migratory bird that winters in the tropical Pacific islands that kind of resembles with its long decurved bill and brown body. So when the first Polynesian settlers arrived, they may have applied the word kiwi to the newfound bird. Some linguists like Robert Blust however propose that kiwi originated from Proto-Oceanic name for the Pacific golden plover,

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