Guam Rail
Gallirallus owstoni(Rothschild, LW, 1895)
English (US) Guam Rail
The Guam Rail (Gallirallus owstoni) 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: forest of Guam (southern Mariana Islands); extinct in the wild until successfully reintroduced into Rota (southernmost Northern Mariana Islands) and Cocos Island (just south of Guam)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallirallus owstoni
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Guam Rail
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1895)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hypotaenidia owstoni
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1895)
- Type locality
- Guam, Marianne Islands.
- Original description
- Novitates Zoologicae 2 p.481
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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