Bar-winged Rail
Gallirallus poecilopterus(Hartlaub, KJG, 1866)
English (US) Bar-winged Rail
The Bar-winged Rail (Gallirallus poecilopterus) 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: formerly Viti Levu and Ovalau, Fiji (western Polynesia); extinct, last reported 1973Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallirallus poecilopterus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Bar-winged Rail
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1866)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Rallina poeciloptera
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1866)
- Type locality
- Viti Levu, Fiji Islands.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.2, vol.2, no.6 p.171
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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