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English Buff-banded Rail
Scientific (Hypotaenidia philippensis)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rallidae
Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Other name(s) Banded Land-Rail, Sharpe's Rail, Râle tiklin, Banded Rail
Breeding Regions AU, PO
Breeding Range Subregions widespread, also Philippines
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map American Samoa,Australia,Indonesia,Micronesia,New Caledonia,Niue,Palau,Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Samoa, Solomon Islands,Tonga,Tuvalu,Vanuatu,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
andrewsi Cocos (Keeling) I. (se Indian Ocean)
sethsmithi Vanuatu and Fiji (probably extinct Viti Levu and Vanua Levu; sw Polynesia)
swindellsi New Caledonia including Loyalty Is.
goodsoni Samoa and Niue (sc Polynesia)
ecaudata Tonga (sc Polynesia)
assimilis n North, n South and satellites of Stewart is. (New Zealand)
macquariensis † † Macquarie I. (far se of Australia)
lacustris nw, ne, c, se New Guinea and Long I. (n of ne New Guinea)
tounelieri Coral Sea Is. (se New Guinea to n New Caledonia)
christophori Solomon Is.
meyeri Witu and New Britain (se Bismarck Arch.)
xerophila Gunungapi Wetar (Banda Sea)
wilkinsoni Flores (c Lesser Sundas)
philippensis Philippines (except Palawan, and Zamboanga Pen. through Sulu Arch.), Borneo, Sulawesi and satellites, Bali and Lesser Sundas
pelewensis Palau (w Caroline Is., w Micronesia)
anachoretae Kaniet Is. (=Anchorite Is., nw of Manus, Admiralty Is., nw Bismarck Arch.)
admiralitatis Admiralty Is. (nw Bismarck Arch.)
praedo Skoki (Admiralty Is., nw Bismarck Arch.)
lesouefi New Hanover (=Lavongai), New Ireland, Tabar and Tanga (ne Bismarck Arch.)
mellori Moluccas, nw, s New Guinea, Australia (except c, Tasmania) and Norfolk I. (far e of Australia)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766)
German Bindenralle
French Râle tiklin
Chinese 红眼斑秧鸡
Japanese ナンヨウクイナ
Russian Полосатый трескун
Spanish Rascón filipino
Portuguese frango-d'água-filipino
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)