Bar-winged Rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Hypotaenidia poeciloptera comparado con Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Bar-winged Rail Marquesan Swamphen
Nombre científico Hypotaenidia poeciloptera Porphyrio paepae
Orden Gruiformes Gruiformes
Familia Rallidae Rallidae
Estado de conservación Extinct Extinct
Longitud
Envergadura
Peso 509,7 g (17.98 oz)
Dieta -- --
Tamaño de la puesta 4-6 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Bar-winged Rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

Ninguno

Estado de conservación

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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