Hawaiian Crake

The Hawaiian Rail , Hawaiian Spotted Rail, or Hawaiian Crake was a somewhat enigmatic species of diminutive rail that lived on Big Island of Hawaiʻi, but is now extinct. It was a flightless bird that was apparently found in shrubland and secondary growth on abandoned fields and in times of danger had the habit of hiding in Polynesian Rat burrows. Specimens are known or assumed to be from an area which roughly corresponds to the middle elevations of today's Puna district around the present settlement of Mountain View, below the primary rainforest. A dark form and a lighter, spotted one are known .

The Hawaiian Crake is classified as Extinct (EX), there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.

Hawaiian Crake was a somewhat enigmatic species of diminutive rail that lived on Big Island of Hawaiʻi, but is now extinct. It was a flightless bird that was apparently found in shrubland and secondary growth on abandoned fields and in times of danger had the habit of hiding in Polynesian Rat burrows. More

Hawaiian Crake Porzana sandwichensis (Gmelin, 1789) * RMNH 87450: Hawaii. Collected during voyage of Captain J. Cook. Syntype Rallus sandwichensis Gmelin, 1789. Hawaiian Crake and Laysan Crake Most birds which became extinct in historical times were inhabitants of islands, where the fragile natural balance was easily disturbed by species introduced by man. More

This species differed from the Hawaiian Crake in the colour of its plumage, which was somewhat darker. Nowadays it is generally believed that the paler birds are immatures of the same species. By chance, Cook's expedition had only obtained young birds. The specimen in Naturalis is one of the birds collected during Cook's voyage. It was purchased by Coenraad J. Temminck, the first director of the Leiden Museum, at the Bullock auction in London in 1819. More

sandwichensis) Hawaiian Spotted Rail, or Hawaiian Crake was a somewhat enigmatic Species of diminutive The North Island Takahē or Mōho, Porphyrio mantelli, is an Extinct rail that was found in the North Island of New Zealand In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. More

Hawaiian Crake Porzana sandwichensis Henderson Island Crake Porzana atra Kosrae Crake Porzana monasa Laysan Crake Porzana palmeri Little Crake Porzana parva Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata Red-and-white Crake Laterallus leucopyrrhus Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber Ruddy-breasted Crake Porzana fusca Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius More

Hawaiian Crake Porzana sandwichensis Ruddy-breasted Crake Porzana fusca Band-bellied Crake Porzana paykullii Spotless Crake Porzana tabuensis Kosrae Crake Porzana monasa Henderson Island Crake Porzana atra Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer White-browed Crake Porzana cinerea Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai Colombian Crake Neocrex colombianus Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus More