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The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), also known as the waterhen, is a bird species in the rail family (Rallidae). It is distributed across many parts of the Old World , across Africa, Europe, and Asia. [ 1 ]
Apart from the 1–3 extinctions in more recent times, another 1–4 species have gone extinct as a consequence of early human settlement: Hodgen's waterhen (Gallinula hodgenorum) of New Zealand—which belongs in subgenus Tribonyx—and a species close to the Samoan moorhen from Buka, Solomon Islands, which is almost certainly distinct from ...
The Tristan moorhen or Tristan gallinule (Gallinula nesiotis) is an extinct species of flightless rail endemic to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha. [2] It was very similar to the Gough moorhen of Gough Island, located 636 kilometres (395 mi) to the southeast.
A new tally after taxonomic revisions and the establishment of a population of Guam rail on Cocos Island, [16] indicates there are now 5 of 16 native terrestrial (non-migratory) birds that remain in the wild on Guam: the Micronesian starling, [17] yellow bittern [18] (not endemic), and three endangered birds (Guam rail, Mariana common moorhen ...
Tristan Gallinule, [1] a moorhen; 1891 Lesser Koa-finch [1] 1892 Guadalupe (Berwick's) Wren (subsp.) [1] Puerto Rican Conure, a parrot [1] ʻUla-ʻAi-hawane, [1] 1894 Kona Grosbeak [1] Lana'i 'Akioloa (subsp. lanaiensis), [1] Lyall's Wren [1] 1895 Chatham Island Fernbird [1] 1896 Greater Koa-finch [1] Maui Nui 'Akialoa (subsp. affinis), [1 ...
This is much faster than the expected “background” extinction rate, or the rate at which species would naturally die off without outside influence — in the absence of human beings, these 73 ...
Black women were found to have the highest rate of obesity (57.9%) and Asian women had the lowest rate (14.5%). Black women also had the highest rate of blood pressure (58.4%) and Hispanic women ...
Showing plumage details Gallinula crowns and bills showing larger frontal shield on the Hawaiian gallinule (centre) compared with the nominate G. g. galeata (left) and a Common Moorhen from Guam (right) Chicks on the leaf of a giant water lily View of the Hanalei Valley in Kaua’i, a stronghold of the Hawaiian gallinule; Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge in the background, taro fields in the ...