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Hawkins's Rail
Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi (Forbes, HO 1892)
Hawkins' rail or the giant Chatham Island rail is an extinct species of flightless rail. It was endemic to the Chatham Islands east of New Zealand. It is known to have existed only on the main islands of Chatham Island and Pitt Island. Hawkins's rail was the largest terrestrial bird native to the Chatham Islands, around 40 centimetres (16 in) tall and weighing about 2 kilograms (4.4 lb). It had a long, downward curving beak. Historic accounts likely referring to the bird by the name Mehonui suggest that it was red-brown in colour, and it has been compared to the weka in ecological habits, using its beak to probe decaying wood for invertebrates. Hawkins's rail likely became extinct due to overhunting by the islands native inhabitants, the Moriori, and the bird is known from skeletal remains found in their kitchen middens. Source: Wikipedia
Classification
Order:Gruiformes
Family:
Rallidae
Genus:
Diaphorapteryx
Scientific:
Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi
Original description
Citation:
(Forbes, HO 1892)
Reference:
Nature
45 p.416
Imprint year:
1882
Protonym:
Aphanapteryx Hawkinsi
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63866#page/458/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
FFFAC0E62E9FD7F9
Avibase ID:
avibase-FFFAC0E6
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/FFFAC0E6
Taxonomic Serial Number:
EXTINCT
Geographic range:
- Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi: Extinct. Formerly occurred on Chatham Island; may have survived until 1895
Source: Clements checklist
Hawkins's Rail
Catalan:
Rascló de Hawkins
Czech:
chřástal Hawkinsův
Danish:
Hawkin´ Skovrikse
German:
Hawkinsralle
Spanish:
Rascón de Hawkins
Spanish (Spain):
Rascón de Hawkins
Finnish:
mehonuiluhtakana
French:
Râle de Hawkins
Croatian:
kratkokrila kokošica
Hungarian:
Hawkins-guvat
Japanese:
ワレカウリクイナ
Dutch:
Hawkins' Ral
Norwegian:
morioririkse
Polish:
wodnik krzyżodzioby
Portuguese:
frango-de-água-gigante-das-chatham
Portuguese (Portugal):
frango-d'água-de-hawkins
Russian:
Чатемский погоныш
Slovak:
chriašteľ mehonuj
Serbian:
Hokinsov petlovan (izumro)
Swedish:
hawkinsrall
Ukrainian:
пастушок маорійський
Chinese:
大查岛秧鸡
Chinese (Traditional):
霍金氏秧雞
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Clements, version 2021: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Clements, version 2022: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Clements, version 2023: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Clements, version 2019: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| eBird version 2019: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| eBird version 2021: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| eBird version 2022: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| eBird version 2023: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.01: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.02: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.03: Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.04 (7/07/2024): Hawkins's Rail ( Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: fossil species (extinct)
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Catalan: Rascló de Hawkins
Czech: chřástal Hawkinsův
Danish: Hawkin´ Skovrikse
German: Hawkins' Ralle, Hawkinsralle
English: Chatham Island giant rail, Giant Chatham Island Rail, Hawkin's Rail, Hawkins's Rail
English, HBW: Hawkins's Rail
English (IOC): Hawkins's Rail
English (United States): Hawkins's Rail
Esperanto: Hawkins-diaforapterigo, Hokinsa diaforapterigo
Spanish: Rascón de Hawkins
Spanish (Spain): Rascón de Hawkins
Finnish: mehonuiluhtakana
French: Râle de Hawkins, Râle géant de Chatham
Croatian: kratkokrila kokošica
Hungarian: Hawkins-guvat
Japanese: ワレカウリクイナ
Scientific: Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi
Dutch: Hawkins' Ral
Norwegian: morioririkse
Polish: chruścielowiec krzyżodzioby, wodnik krzyżodzioby
Portuguese: frango-de-água-gigante-das-chatham
Portuguese (Portugal): frango-d'água-de-hawkins
Russian: Гигантский чатемский пастушок, Чатемский погоныш
Slovak: chriašteľ mehonuj
Serbian: Hokinsov petlovan (izumro)
Swedish: hawkinsrall, Mehonui
Turkish: Hawkin yelvesi
Ukrainian: пастушок маорійський
Chinese: 大查岛秧鸡
Chinese (Traditional): 霍金氏秧雞
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