The extinct Wake Island rail (Hypotaenidia wakensis) was a flightless rail and the only native land bird on the Pacific atoll of Wake. It was found on...
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Wake Island (Marshallese: Ānen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific...
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The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. The assault began simultaneously with the attack...
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The Inaccessible Island rail (Laterallus rogersi) is a small bird of the rail family, Rallidae. Endemic to Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago...
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eggs collected for food. The Wake Island rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during...
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Peale Island is one of three islands in the Wake Island atoll, which lies in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and Midway. The atoll was from 1935 the site...
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Oahu 'Akioloa (subsp.) 1941 Arabian Ostrich (subsp.) 1944 Laysan Rail 1945 Wake Island Rail 1950 Grand Cayman Oriole (subsp. bairdi) Imperial Woodpecker Madagascar...
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The Wake Island rail (now extinct) was endemic to Wake Island, and the Laysan duck is endemic to Midway Atoll and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Palmyra...
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kiwis) and penguins. The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7 g). The largest (both heaviest and tallest)...
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eggs, such as Philippine megapode eggs. Wake Island rail (an extinct rail of Pacific, that only lived on Wake island) BirdLife International (2018). "Hypotaenidia...
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that the Tahiti rail was an isolated form of buff-banded rail and perhaps belonged to a superspecies with that bird and the Wake Island rail (Hypotaenidia...
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Dieffenbach's rail Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii (Gray, GR, 1843) (E) 58 Tahiti rail Hypotaenidia pacifica (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (E) 59 Wake Island rail Hypotaenidia...
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brushturkey Waigeo shrikethrush Wailing cisticola Wakatobi white-eye †Wake Island rail Wakolo myzomela Walden's hornbill Wallace's fairywren Wallace's fruit...
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Bar-winged rail (Nesoclopeus poeciloptera) Dieffenbach's rail (Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii) Tahiti rail (Hypotaenidia pacifica) Wake Island rail (Hypotaenidia...
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of Wake Island. The avifauna of Wake Island include fifty-five species, of which one is endemic, and one has been introduced by humans. Wake Island is...
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rail, Hypotaenidia pacificus (Tahiti, Society Islands, South Pacific, late 18th – 19th century) Wake Island rail, Hypotaenidia wakensis (Wake Island,...
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sylvestris Buff-banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis Dieffenbach's rail, Gallirallus dieffenbachii – extinct (mid-19th century) Wake Island rail, Gallirallus wakensis...
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Wilkes Island is a small islet that is part of the Wake Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific. The island is cut in half by a partially completed WW2 submarine...
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survived to the early 19th century Hiva Oa rail, ?"Gallirallus" sp. Norfolk Island rail, "Gallirallus" sp. - possibly survived to the early 19th century In addition...
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1922. "Benjamin", the last known thylacine, photographed in 1933. Laysan rail photographed in 1913. Japanese sea lion drawn by Philipp Franz von Siebold...
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The Wake Island rail was a species endemic to Wake Island, but it is now extinct. The Laysan duck is endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands (which...
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The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (Zapornia palmeri) was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and still...
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Buff-banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis (American Samoa) LC Guam rail, Gallirallus owstoni (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands) (EG / ENM) CR Wake Island rail, Gallirallus...
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from the remaining Pacific Islands are listed below. This list includes sovereign states (such as Fiji) as well as island territories (such as French...
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linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries. Rail transport in New Zealand has a particular focus...
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containing an island or island chain. Some must be explored to continue the story, while others are optional. Like all Zelda games, The Wind Waker features...
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2023. Baldur's Gate 3 led the show with nine nominations, followed by Alan Wake 2 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 with eight each. Nintendo led the publishers...
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Whina Cooper (redirect from Hohewhina Te Wake)
Dame Whina Cooper ONZ DBE (born Hōhepine Te Wake; 9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994) was a New Zealand kuia (Māori elder), who worked for many years for...
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Paradise Island Pelican Island Quail Island Sand Island Strawn Island Tanager Island Whippoorwill Island Wake Island Peale Island Wake Island Wikes Island Serranilla...
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2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck (redirect from Queen of the Sea rail disaster)
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when...
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