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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.
Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Canada; Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the United States; Lists of giants; Lists of IUCN Red List species. Lists of extinct animals; Lists of IUCN Red List critically endangered species; Lists of IUCN Red List data deficient species; Lists of IUCN Red List endangered species
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).
Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family. The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species. [2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance". [3]
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 ...
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]