Wake Island Rail (Hypotaenidia wakensis)

Posted on 31 December, 1945 in Extinct • Tagged with USA (Wake Island), family-RALLIDAE, extinct-1940s

Year Last Seen:

1945

Comments:

This species was known from Wake Island in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, but went Extinct in the mid-1940s, being last recorded in 1945 and never seen by an observer who took up residence in 1946. It is thought to have been hunted to …


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