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White-browed Crake
Sign in to saveAlso known as Porzana cinerea, Poliolimnas cinereus, Amaurornis cinerea
species of bird
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-browed Crake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.