Caption
Extinct rail species. Clockwise from top left: Mascarene coot (Fulica newtoni) extinct circa 1700. Dieffenbach's rail (Gallirallus dieffenbachii) extinct circa1850; Chatham island rail (Gallirallus modestus) extinct. c.1900; Sharpe's rail (Gallirallus sharpei) extinct. c.1900, Wake Island rail (Gallirallus wakensis) extinct. 1945; Macquarie Island banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis macquariensis) extinct. 1880; Makira gallinule (Gallinula silvestris) extinct circa 1940; Assumption white-throated rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri abbotti) extinct. c.1937; Tahiti red-billed rail (Gallirallus pacificus) extinct. c.1850.
Availability
Only inBelgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland