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Ridgway's rail: Rallus obsoletus Ridgway, 1874: 18 Clapper rail: Rallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789: 19 Aztec rail: Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874: 20 Mangrove rail: Rallus longirostris Boddaert, 1783: 21 King rail: Rallus elegans Audubon, 1834: 22 Plain-flanked rail: Rallus wetmorei Zimmer, JT & Phelps, WH, 1944: 23 Virginia rail: Rallus ...
The Guam rail is an example of an island species that has been badly affected by introduced species. Some larger, more abundant rails are hunted and their eggs collected for food. [ 25 ] The Wake Island rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during World War II . [ 26 ]
Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus). Rallus is a genus of wetland birds of the rail family.Sometimes, the genera Lewinia and Gallirallus are included in it. Six of the species are found in the Americas, and the three species found in Eurasia, Africa and Madagascar are very closely related to each other, suggesting they are descended from a single invasion of a New World ancestor.
The king rail interbreeds with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) where their ranges overlap; It can be argued that these two birds belong to the same species according to the biological species concept. A chick. The king rail lays a clutch of 6 to 14 pale buff eggs with brown spotting. They usually measure 41 by 30 millimetres (1.6 by 1.2 in).
The nominate subspecies' breeding habitat is wet meadows, fens and shallow marshes across Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States and the entire northern Canada–US border Great Plains to the Great Lakes. These northern populations of yellow rail migrate to the southeastern coastal United States. Little is known about ...
Via Rail Actively used by Via Rail. Benny: Actively used by Via Rail Bethany Grand Trunk Defunct. Originally Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway. Biscotasing: Actively used by Via Rail Blair GTR: 1872–73? Grand Trunk Defunct and likely demolished. The Doon branch through Blair was abandoned in the 1950s and tracks were removed sometime ...
A study of the diet of brown skuas on Inaccessible Island confirmed this, but found that although skuas do eat adults of this species, the rail and other landbirds formed only a small part of the diet of that seabird, especially compared to their abundance on the island. They noted that the landbirds alarm-called when brown skuas were seen. [23]
California rail, L. j. coturniculus (Ridgway, 1874) – found in both fresh and salt water marshes of California and Arizona, and is a resident species. The California rail can be distinguished from other subspecies by its shorter bill, and brown crown and upper back. [8]