Buff-banded Rail vs Marquesan Swamphen

Hypotaenidia philippensis so với Porphyrio paepae

Side-by-Side Comparison

Thuộc Tính Buff-banded Rail Marquesan Swamphen
Tên Khoa Học Hypotaenidia philippensis Porphyrio paepae
Bộ Gruiformes Gruiformes
Họ Rallidae Rallidae
Tình Trạng Bảo Tồn Least Concern Extinct
Chiều Dài
Chiều Dài Sải Cánh 28,3 cm (11.1 in)
Khối Lượng 186,66666666666666 g (6.58 oz)
Chế Độ Ăn -- --
Số Trứng 2-8 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Môi Trường Sống Chung

Buff-banded Rail only

Marquesan Swamphen only

Không

Tình Trạng Bảo Tồn

Least Concern

Buff-banded Rail

Extinct

Marquesan Swamphen

About These Birds

Buff-banded Rail

Buff-banded Rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis), 31 cm. Strongly barred underparts; rufous breast band; brown streaked back. Widespread coloniser from the Philippines through Australia and across the Pacific. Inhabits marshes, grassland and coastal scrub. Omnivore. Least Concern; highly dispersive.

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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