Buff-banded rail

"Tikling" redirects here. For the other species referred to by this name, see Barred rail.

Buff-banded rail
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Hypotaenidia
Species:
H. philippensis
Binomial name
Hypotaenidia philippensis
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Rallus philippensis Linnaeus, 1766 (protonym)
  • Hypotaenidia philippensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
  • Gallirallus sharpei (Buttikofer, 1893)

The buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis) is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species comprises several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand (where it is known as the banded rail, or moho-pererū in Māori),[2] and numerous smaller islands, covering a range of latitudes from the tropics to the subantarctic.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Hypotaenidia philippensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22692425A93353232. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692425A93353232.en.
  2. ^ Hugh Robertson, Barrie Heather (Author), & Derek Onley. (2005) The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand Revised edition, Viking.