The New Guinea flightless rail (Megacrex inepta), also known as the Papuan flightless rail, is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, in the monotypic...

species) Gymnocrex – (3 species) Himantornis – Nkulengu rail Megacrex – New Guinea flightless rail Poliolimnas – white-browed crake Aenigmatolimnas – striped...

smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7 g). The largest (both heaviest and tallest) flightless bird, which...

The invisible rail, Wallace's rail, or drummer rail (Habroptila wallacii) is a large flightless rail that is endemic to the island of Halmahera in Northern...

Guinea flightless rail New Guinea friarbird New Guinea scrubfowl New Guinea thornbill New Guinea woodcock New Hanover mannikin New Holland honeyeater New Ireland...

plumbeiventris (Gray, GR, 1862) 141 Nkulengu rail Himantornis haematopus Hartlaub, 1855 142 New Guinea flightless rail Megacrex inepta D'Albertis & Salvadori...

Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand (where it is known as the banded rail, or moho-pererū in Māori), and numerous...

amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown" and ornis, meaning "bird". The New Guinea flightless rail was sometimes included in this genus, but more often held to constitute...

Many species of birds also inhabit these forests including the New Guinea flightless rail, while endemic or near-endemic birds include the red-billed brush-turkey...

Lewinia ?Genus Limnocrex (synonym of Laterallus?) Genus Megacrex - New Guinea flightless rail Genus Micropygia - ocellated crake Genus Mundia - Ascension crake...

Isabel rail Pink-legged rail Roviana rail Bougainville rail Woodford's rail New Guinea flightless rail Tsingy wood rail White-striped forest rail Andaman...

Struthioniformes   Family: Casuariidae The cassowaries are large flightless birds native to Australia and New Guinea. Southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius Dwarf cassowary...

Porphyrio madagascariensis Purple gallinule, Porphyrio martinica New Guinea flightless rail, Megacrex inepta Watercock, Gallicrex cinerea Isabelline bush-hen...

Porphyrio pulverulentus (A) White-browed crake, Poliolimnas cinereus New Guinea flightless rail, Megacrex inepta Watercock, Gallicrex cinerea Isabelline bush-hen...

Sarothruridae native to Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea and Wallacea, and the extinct adzebills of New Zealand. Antillean cave rail, Nesotrochis debooyi (Puerto Rico...

the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2011. "New Zealand ecology: Flightless birds". TerraNature. Archived from the original on 8 April...

Diamond, J. (July 1991). "A New Species of Rail from the Solomon-Islands and Convergent Evolution of Insular Flightlessness". Auk. 108 (3): 461–470. doi:10...

authoritative list of the birds of New Zealand. Order: Apterygiformes   Family: Apterygidae Kiwi are flightless birds all native to New Zealand. Approximately the...

This is a list of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about...

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean...

Like their larger more ancestral relatives, they readily evolve into flightless island endemics in the absence of terrestrial predators; however, their...

spp. All cave rail (Nesotrochis) spp. e.g. Antillean cave rail (Nesotrochis debooyi) (C) Barbados rail (Incertae sedis) (C) Cuban flightless crane (Antigone...

mainland New Zealand. The original settlers quickly exploited the abundant large game in New Zealand, such as moa, which were large flightless ratites...

crown-group did produce flightlessness. The genus Sylviornis, a huge prehistorically extinct species of New Caledonia, was flightless, but as opposed to most...

only includes the indigenous biota of New Zealand, not domestic animals like the kurī. List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene List...

tool-using New Caledonian crow. The separation of the Gondwana islands before the mammalian expansion that allowed the radiation of flightless birds (moa...

archipelago) is included below, although the rest of Papua New Guinea is covered in List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene. Many extinction...

This family of flightless ratite birds is represented by two living species in Australia. Another two species are found in New Guinea. The extinct, geographically...

the dodo, Rodrigues solitaire, and Viti Levu giant pigeon) and likely flightless, which would have made it easy prey of humans or introduced mammals....

the ratites and tinamous. The ratites are mostly large and long-legged, flightless birds, lacking a keeled sternum. Traditionally, all the ratites were place...