Rails
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Guam Rails
The Guam Rails, Gallirallus owstoni, is a flightless bird, endemic to Guam. The Guam Rail disappeared from southern Guam in…
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Wild Birds
Rails
The family Rallidae includes rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. In Europe / Africa / Asia (the "Old World"), the long-billed…
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Great Maui Rails
The Great Maui Rail or Great Maui Crake (Porzana severnsi) is an extinct bird species from Maui, one of two…
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Virginia Rail
Virginia Rail The Virginia Rail, Rallus limicola, is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. Description: Adults are…
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Ibiza Rails
The Ibiza Rails (Rallus eivissensis) is a new species of rail, described from a Late Pleistocene to Holocene cave deposit…
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St. Helena Crake
The St. Helena Crake or St. Helena Rail (Porzana astrictocarpus) is an extinct bird species from Saint Helena,…
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Cocos Buff-banded Rails
The Cocos Buff-banded Rails, Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi, is an endangered subspecies of the Buff-banded Rail endemic to the Cocos (Keeling)…
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Calayan Rails
The Calayan rails (Gallirallus calayanensis) is a flightless bird that inhabits Calayan Island in the Philippines. It is restricted to…
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Great O’ahu Crakes
The Great O’ahu Crake or Great O’ahu Rail (Porzana ralphorum) is an extinct bird species endemic to the island of…
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Laysan Rails
The Laysan Rails or Laysan Crake (Porzana palmeri) was a tiny inhabitant of the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This…
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