Barred rail

The barred rail (Hypotaenidia torquata) is a species of rail found across the Philippines, Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Salawati (western New Guinea). The species is common, but shy and difficult to see.^[2]

Barred rail
G. t. celebensis at Manado, Indonesia
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Hypotaenidia
Species:	H. torquata
Binomial name
Hypotaenidia torquata (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
Rallus torquatus Linnaeus, 1766 Gallirallus torquatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Its diet includes (but is not limited to) eggs, such as Philippine megapode eggs.^[3]

See also

• Wake Island rail (an extinct rail of Pacific, that only lived on Wake island)