Buff-banded rail / Bindenralle (Gallirallus philippensis)

Wikipedia: Buff-banded rail Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Buff-banded_Rail_1_-_Newington.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Gallirallus (Gallirallus); Family Rails (Rallidae)
Geography: This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, Asia, Australia.
General: The buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia 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),^[2] and numerous smaller islands, covering a range of latitudes from the tropics to the Subantarctic. [more]