Family: Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Authority: Rothschild, 1903

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was known from Wake Island in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, but went Extinct in the mid-1940s, being last recorded in 1945 and never seen by an observer who took up residence in 1946. It is thought to have been hunted to extinction by soldiers who were stranded on the island.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
Realm - Nearctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial