Bar-winged Rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Hypotaenidia poeciloptera verglichen mit Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal Bar-winged Rail Marquesan Swamphen
Wissenschaftlicher Name Hypotaenidia poeciloptera Porphyrio paepae
Ordnung Gruiformes Gruiformes
Familie Rallidae Rallidae
Erhaltungsstatus Extinct Extinct
Länge
Flügelspannweite
Gewicht 509,7 g (17.98 oz)
Ernährung -- --
Gelegegröße 4-6 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

Bar-winged Rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

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Erhaltungsstatus

Extinct

Bar-winged Rail

Extinct

Marquesan Swamphen

About These Birds

Bar-winged Rail

Bar-winged Rail (Hypotaenidia poeciloptera), 28 cm. Brown with barred wings and flanks; inhabits grassland and marsh edges of Fiji. Omnivore. Endangered; severely reduced by habitat conversion, feral cats and mongooses; fewer than 1,000 individuals estimated.

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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