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Hawkins's Rail Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi



Family: Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Authority: (Forbes, 1892)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was known from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but is now Extinct as a result of hunting and introduced predators. It is known only from the fossil record and two accounts describing recollections of the species. The oldest member of the Moriori Polynesians was questioned and his recollections were described in a letter in 1895 (Hume 2017); based on this evidence the species is thought to have persisted into at least the late 1800s.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Hawkins's Rail Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/hawkinss-rail-diaphorapteryx-hawkinsi on 25/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 25/12/2024.