Brown Wood-rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Aramides wolfi comparado com Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Brown Wood-rail Marquesan Swamphen
Nome científico Aramides wolfi Porphyrio paepae
Ordem Gruiformes Gruiformes
Família Rallidae Rallidae
Estado de conservação Vulnerable Extinct
Comprimento
Envergadura 33,0 cm (13.0 in)
Peso 474,0 g (16.72 oz)
Dieta -- --
Tamanho da postura 2-4 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Habitats partilhados

Nenhum

Brown Wood-rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

Estado de conservação

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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