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Slaty-breasted wood rail: Aramides saracura (Spix, 1825) 17 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 ...
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 ]
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A "watercock" is not a male "waterhen" but the rail species Gallicrex cinerea, not closely related to the common moorhen. "Water rail" usually refers to Rallus aquaticus, again not closely related. Five subspecies are currently accepted: [4] G. c. chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Europe and north Africa to Japan and southeast Asia
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The New Caledonian rail (Cabalus lafresnayanus) is a large and drab flightless rail endemic to the island of New Caledonia in the Pacific. It is Critically Endangered , may have gone extinct many decades ago already, and if it still exists it is one of the least-known living bird species.
Canada Central Railway: Acquired by Canadian Pacific. Canada Coal and Railroad Company: northwestern Nova Scotia: 1905–1906: Sold to become MCR&PC. Canada Coals and Railway Company: northwestern Nova Scotia: 1892–1905: Sold to become CC&RC. Canada Southern Railway: Acquired by MCRR, later NYC. Sold to CPR and CN. Abandoned. Canadian ...