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Wake Island Rail
Plate 1 of 1. Grooch, W. S., no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Wake Island Rail

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Wake Island Rail

Gallirallus wakensis

The extinct Wake Island rail (Gallirallus wakensis) was a flightless rail and the only native land bird on the Pacific atoll of Wake. It was found on the islands of Wake and Wilkes, but not on Peale, which is separated from the others by a channel of about 100 meters.

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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 434.