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Jamaican wood rail

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Although capable of flight, the wood rail was primarily a terrestrial bird, preferring to run to escape predators. It was originally widespread on the island, inhabiting swamps, jungle undergrowth and streambeds, to fairly high altitudes.
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The Jamaican wood rail was a reddish-brown bird some 10 inches in length.
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to Jamaica in 1872. The last specimens of the bird were collected in 1881.
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David Watts; Alan R. H. Baker; Richard Dennis (1990).
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Conservation status
Extinct
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Rallidae
Amaurolimnas
A. concolor
Trinomial name
P. H. Gosse
nominate subspecies
uniform crake
Jamaica
rats
cats
small Indian mongooses
"Amaurolimnas concolor"
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
doi
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22692601A163610586.en



ISBN
0-947889-30-2

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