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Inaccessible Island Rail

Laterallus rogersi

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Rallidae

The Inaccessible Island rail, or Inaccessible rail (Laterallus rogersi), is a small bird species of the rail family, Rallidae. Endemic to Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago in the isolated south Atlantic, it is the smallest extant flightless bird in the world. The species was formally described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923 but had first come to the attention of scientists 50 years earlier.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 7