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Bar-winged Rail - BirdForum Opus

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Hypotaenidia poecilopterus

Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

Identification

Extinct. Last record from 1973.

Distribution

Formerly Fiji Islands.

Taxonomy

Sometimes lumped with Woodford's Rail (H. woodfordi).

This species was formerly placed in genus Nesoclopeus. Current placement in Hypotaenidia is a consensus of H&M4 and IOC[2, 3].

Habitat

Forests and freshwater swamps.

Behaviour

Flightless.

It nested on the ground.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v 11.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. Christidis et al. 2018. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, version 4.1 (Downloadable checklist). Accessed from https://www.howardandmoore.org.

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