White-browed Crake
Poliolimnas cinereus(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
English (US) White-browed Crake
The White-browed Crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) 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: central Myanmar eastward to southern China, Taiwan, and Philippines, southward to Indonesian Archipelago, coastal northern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, eastward to Mackay, Queensland), western Micronesia, and western Polynesia eastward to SamoaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Poliolimnas cinereus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-browed Crake
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Porphyrio cinereus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
- Type locality
- No locality. Java designated by Mathews, Bds. Austr., 1, 1911, p. 219.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 28 p.29
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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