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Guam Rail

Hypotaenidia owstoni

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Rallidae

The Guam rail (Gallirallus owstoni), known locally and in Chamorro as ko'ko', is a small, terrestrial bird endemic to Guam in the Rallidae family. They are one of the island's few remaining endemic bird species. The species became extinct in the wild in the early 1980s when biologists captured the remaining wild population to establish a breeding program.

Distribution

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United States of America · 3