Swinhoe's Rail
Coturnicops exquisitus(Swinhoe, R, 1873)
English (US) Swinhoe's Rail
The Swinhoe's Rail (Coturnicops exquisitus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: breeds Siberia and northern Manchuria; winters to southern China and Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Coturnicops exquisitus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Swinhoe's Rail
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1873)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Porzana exquisita
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1873)
- Type locality
- Cheefoo, China.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.4, vol.12, no.71 p.376
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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