White-browed crake
| White-browed crake | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Amaurornis |
| Species: | A. cinerea |
| Binomial name | |
| Amaurornis cinerea (Vieillot, 1819) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Poliolimnas cinereus | |
The white-browed crake (Amaurornis cinerea) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. 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
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Amaurornis cinerea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
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