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Lewinia pectoralis (Lewin's Rail)

Synonyms: Rallus pectoralis; Rallus pectoralis pectoralis

Wikipedia Abstract

Lewin's rail (Lewinia pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Wallacea, and New Guinea. Lewin's rail is also known as the water rail, Lewin's water rail, Lewin's grind rail, slate-breasted rail, slate-breasted water rail, pectoral rail, pectoral water rail, short-toed rail and short-toed water rail. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Infraspecies

Lewinia pectoralis alberti (Slate-breasted rail)
Lewinia pectoralis brachipus (Slate-breasted rail)
Lewinia pectoralis capta (Slate-breasted rail)
Lewinia pectoralis clelandi (Slate-breasted rail)
Lewinia pectoralis exsul (Slate-breasted rail)
Lewinia pectoralis insulsa
Lewinia pectoralis mayri
Lewinia pectoralis pectoralis (Slate-breasted rail)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.68176
EDGE Score: 2.27024
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  78 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [1]  5
Incubation [3]  19 days
Mating System [4]  Monogamy
Wing Span [3]  13 inches (.33 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Flinders Chase National Park II 81245 South Australia, Australia
Grampians National Park II 416373 Victoria, Australia
Kooragang Nature Reserve IV 8300 New South Wales, Australia  
Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve II 17390 Tasmania, Australia    
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Predators

Circus spilothorax (Papuan Harrier)[3]

External References

Citations

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
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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