Species profile
wake rail
Gallirallus wakensis
Quick answer
Formerly Wake Island. Extinct; last reported 1944
- Scientific name
- Gallirallus wakensis
- Family
- Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Genus
- Gallirallus
Recording wake rail in your journal
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