Blue-faced Rail

Blue-faced Rail

Taxobox
name = Blue-faced Rail


status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Gruiformes
familia = Rallidae
genus = "Gymnocrex"
species = "G. rosenbergii"
binomial = "Gymnocrex rosenbergii"
binomial_authority = (Schlegel, 1866)
synonyms =

The Blue-faced Rail ("Gymnocrex rosenbergii") or Bald-faced Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and rivers.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/9571/all Gymnocrex rosenbergii] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2890&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]


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