White-browed crake
White-browed crake | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Gruiformes |
Family: | Rallidae |
Genus: | Poliolimnas Sharpe, 1893 |
Species: | P. cinereus
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Binomial name | |
Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot, 1819)
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Synonyms | |
Porzana cinerea |
The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.[2] It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Amaurornis cinerea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Rallidae
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds of Micronesia
- Birds of Melanesia
- Birds of the Northern Territory
- Birds of Queensland
- Birds described in 1819
- Gruiformes stubs