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Ua Huka Rail
Gallirallus gracilitibia
The Ua Huka rail (Gallirallus gracilitibia) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family.
From the article Ua Huka rail on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Ua Huka rail was a small to medium-sized rail, similar to the buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis) but with reduced wings and an extremely thin shaft of the tibiotarsus - perhaps the thinnest among all rail species, volant or flightless. The reasons behind this feature are unclear.
== References ==
In human culture
It was described in 2007 from subfossil remains collected in 1965 by anthropologist Yosihiko H. Sinoto and colleagues at the Hane Dune archaeological site, on the island of Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. The site dates to about 1350 yr BP, from the early period of human settlement of the island.
Wikipedia: “History”
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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 774510.