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Ascension Crake
Plate 1 of 1. Peter Mundy, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Ascension Crake

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Ascension Crake

Mundia elpenor

The Ascension crake (Mundia elpenor) is an extinct flightless bird that previously lived on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was declared extinct by Groombridge in 1994; BirdLife International confirmed this in 2000 and 2004. It is a member of the family Rallidae.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 106236.