Blue-faced Rail
Gymnocrex rosenbergii(Schlegel, H, 1866)
English (US) Blue-faced Rail
The Blue-faced Rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii) 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: Sulawesi and Peleng, in Banggai Islands (off eastern Sulawesi)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gymnocrex rosenbergii
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Blue-faced Rail
- Described by
- (Schlegel, H, 1866)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Rallina rosenbergii
- Described by
- (Schlegel, H, 1866)
- Type locality
- Kema, Celebes.
- Original description
- Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 3 p.212
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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