Spotless Crake

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Spotless Crake
In Victoria, Australia
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Porzana
Species: P. tabuensis
Binomial name
Porzana tabuensis
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Spotless Crake (Porzana tabuensis) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It is found in American Samoa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga.

Spotless Crake (right) with a Baillon's Crake (left)


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