Brown Wood-rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Aramides wolfi verglichen mit Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal Brown Wood-rail Marquesan Swamphen
Wissenschaftlicher Name Aramides wolfi Porphyrio paepae
Ordnung Gruiformes Gruiformes
Familie Rallidae Rallidae
Erhaltungsstatus Vulnerable Extinct
Länge
Flügelspannweite 33,0 cm (13.0 in)
Gewicht 474,0 g (16.72 oz)
Ernährung -- --
Gelegegröße 2-4 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

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Brown Wood-rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

Erhaltungsstatus

Vulnerable

Brown Wood-rail

Extinct

Marquesan Swamphen

About These Birds

Brown Wood-rail

Brown Wood-rail (Aramides wolfi), 38 cm. Uniform brown-olive overall with a grey head and red legs. Inhabits wet lowland forest and forest edge near streams in Ecuador and Colombia (Pacific slope). Omnivore. Vulnerable; dependent on intact wet Pacific forest.

Marquesan Swamphen

Marquesan Swamphen (Porphyrio paepae) is an extinct flightless swamphen known only from subfossil bones from the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Lost following Polynesian settlement and later European contact. Part of the broader pattern of Pacific island rail extinctions linked to human arrival and introduced rats.

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