Red-legged Crake
Rallina fasciata(Raffles, TS, 1822)
English (US) Red-legged Crake
The Red-legged Crake (Rallina fasciata) 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: south-central Myanmar eastward to northern Thailand, southern Vietnam, and Philippines (very local), and southward through Indonesian Archipelago eastward to eastern WallaceaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rallina fasciata
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-legged Crake
- Described by
- (Raffles, TS, 1822)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Rallus fasciatus
- Described by
- (Raffles, TS, 1822)
- Type locality
- Benkulen, western Sumatra.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13, pt.2 p.328
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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