Nkulengu Rail
Himantornis haematopusHartlaub, KJG, 1855
English (US) Nkulengu Rail
The Nkulengu Rail (Himantornis haematopus) 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: humid forest of Sierra Leone to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and GabonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Himantornis haematopus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Nkulengu Rail
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1855
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1855
- Type locality
- Dabocrom, Gold Coast.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 3, no.17 p.357
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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