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White-browed crake

White-browed crake
Porzana cinerea - Bueng Boraphet.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Poliolimnas
Sharpe, 1893
Species:
P. cinereus
Binomial name
Poliolimnas cinereus
(Vieillot, 1819)
Synonyms

Poliolimnas cinereus
Amaurornis 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

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Amaurornis cinerea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  2. ^ 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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