Paint-billed Crake vs Marquesan Swamphen

Neocrex erythrops verglichen mit Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal Paint-billed Crake Marquesan Swamphen
Wissenschaftlicher Name Neocrex erythrops Porphyrio paepae
Ordnung Gruiformes Gruiformes
Familie Rallidae Rallidae
Erhaltungsstatus Least Concern Extinct
Länge
Flügelspannweite 19,3 cm (7.6 in)
Gewicht 55,833333333333336 g (1.97 oz)
Ernährung -- --
Gelegegröße 3-7 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

Paint-billed Crake only

Marquesan Swamphen only

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Erhaltungsstatus

Least Concern

Paint-billed Crake

Extinct

Marquesan Swamphen

About These Birds

Paint-billed Crake

Paint-billed Crake (Neocrex erythrops), 18 cm. Brown above with a diagnostic multi-coloured bill (red base, yellow tip); grey underparts. Found in wet grassland and cultivation from Panama to Argentina. Omnivore. Least Concern; locally common but secretive.

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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