Biology:White-browed crake

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Short description: Species of bird

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

Porzana cinerea
Amaurornis cinerea
Porphyrio cinereus

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

  1. 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