Buff-banded Rail
Gallirallus philippensis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 5,888
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
Description
The buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis) is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species comprises several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand (where it is known as the banded rail, or moho-pererū in Māori), and numerous smaller islands, covering a range of latitudes from the tropics to the subantarctic. The species was formerly placed in the genus Hypotaenidia.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Buff-banded rail”.