Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Gruiformes > Rallidae > Coturnicops > Coturnicops exquisitusCoturnicops exquisitus (Swinhoe's Rail)Synonyms: Porzana exquisita The Swinhoe's rail (Coturnicops exquisitus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.It is found in Manchuria and southeastern Siberia.Its natural habitats are swamps, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and arable land. It is the world's smallest rail at 13 cm (5.2 in) and 24.5 grams.It is threatened by habitat loss. The common name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.27971 EDGE Score: 3.71647 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 53 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 49 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 58 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 18.4 % |  | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Water Surface [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 | | Fledging [1] | 35 days | | Incubation [1] | 17 days | | Migration [4] | Intracontinental |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Amur meadow steppe |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Bohai Sea saline meadow |
China |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Central China loess plateau mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Changbai Mountains mixed forests |
China, Dem. People's Rep of Korea |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Changjiang Plain evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Daba Mountains evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Huang He Plain mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Manchurian mixed forests |
Republic of Korea, Dem. People's Rep of Korea, China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Mongolian-Manchurian grassland |
China, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northeast China Plain deciduous forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests |
China, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Trans-Baikal conifer forests |
Russia, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Yellow Sea saline meadow |
China |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Khankaisky State Nature Reserve |
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97085 |
Primorsky Krai, Russia |
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Khinganskiy State Nature Reserve |
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239873 |
Amur, Russia |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Daiyun Shan Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dongting Hu wetlands |
China (mainland) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Hotokenuma, Lake Ogawarako and nearby lakes |
Japan |
A1, A3 |
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Jiugong Shan Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Khanka plain |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Kwangpo |
North Korea |
A1, A4i |
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Poyang Hu wetlands |
China (mainland) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Torey lakes (including Daursky Nature Reserve) |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Zhalong Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Japan |
Japan |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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