White-browed Crake

White-browed Crake
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Porzana
Species: P. cinerea
Binomial name
Porzana cinerea
(Vieillot, 1819)
Synonyms

Poliolimnas cinereus

The White-browed Crake (Porzana cinerea) is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, 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.

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