Biology:White-browed crake
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Short description: Species of bird
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Poliolimnas Sharpe, 1893 |
| Species: | P. cinereus
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| Binomial name | |
| Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot, 1819)
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Porzana cinerea | |
The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.[1] 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
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/.
Wikidata ☰ Q782463 entry
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