White-browed crake

White-browed crake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Poliolimnas Sharpe, 1893
Species:	P. cinereus
Binomial name
Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot, 1819)
Synonyms
Porzana cinerea Amaurornis cinerea Porphyrio cinereus

The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.^[2] It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct.

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1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Amaurornis cinerea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22692723A93366932. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692723A93366932.en. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.

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