Blue-faced Rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Gymnocrex rosenbergii 比較対象 Porphyrio paepae

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属性 Blue-faced Rail Marquesan Swamphen
学名 Gymnocrex rosenbergii Porphyrio paepae
Gruiformes Gruiformes
Rallidae Rallidae
保全状況 Vulnerable Extinct
体長
翼開長 37.2 cm (14.6 in)
体重 294.0 g (10.37 oz)
食性 -- --
一腹卵数 -- --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

None

Blue-faced Rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

保全状況

Vulnerable

Blue-faced Rail

Extinct

Marquesan Swamphen

About These Birds

Blue-faced Rail

アオカオクイナ(Gymnocrex rosenbergii)はスラウェシ島および周辺インドネシア諸島に固有のクイナ(体長28〜32 cm)。鮮やかな裸出した青い顔面皮膚、暗褐色の背面、栗赤色の腹面が特徴。流れのそばの低地・丘陵林や湿地の林間に生息。稀にしか見られず、林床を採食。

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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