Brown Wood-rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Aramides wolfi so với Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Thuộc Tính Brown Wood-rail Marquesan Swamphen
Tên Khoa Học Aramides wolfi Porphyrio paepae
Bộ Gruiformes Gruiformes
Họ Rallidae Rallidae
Tình Trạng Bảo Tồn Vulnerable Extinct
Chiều Dài
Chiều Dài Sải Cánh 33,0 cm (13.0 in)
Khối Lượng 474,0 g (16.72 oz)
Chế Độ Ăn -- --
Số Trứng 2-4 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Môi Trường Sống Chung

Không

Brown Wood-rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

Tình Trạng Bảo Tồn

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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