Habroptila wallacii Gray, 1860:365
Drummer rail, Wallace's rail, Invisible rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1930
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gray, George Robert. (1860). List of birds collected by Mr. Wallace at the Molucca Islands, with descriptions of new species, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 341-368.
Other references:
Bashari, Hanom and Balen, Bas Van. (2011). First breeding record of the Drummer Rail Habroptila wallacii. BirdingASIA 15: 20-22.
BirdLife International. (2001). Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
BirdLife International. (2012). Habroptila wallacii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 04 July 2015.
BirdLife International. (2015). Species factsheet: Habroptila wallacii. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 05/07/2015.
Coates, B. J. and Bishop, K. D. (1997). A guide to the birds of Wallacea. Alderley, Australia: Dove Publications.
Collar, Nigel J. (2009). Pioneer of Asian ornithology: Gerd Heinrich. BirdingASIA 11: 33-40.
de Haan, G. A. L. (1950). Notes on the Invisible Flightless Rail of Halmahera (Habroptila wallacii Gray). Amsterdam Naturalist 1: 57-60.
Heinrich, G. (1956) Biologische Aufzeichnungen über Vögel von Halmahera und Batjan. J. Orn. 97: 31-40.
Ripley, S. D. and Beehler, B. M. (1985). Rails of the world, a compilation of new information, 1975-1983 (Aves, Rallidae). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 417.
Taylor, P. B. (1996). Family Rallidae (Rails, gallinules and coots), pp.108-209. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the birds of the world, 3. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.
White, C. M. N. and Bruce, M. D. (1986). The birds of Wallacea. London: British Ornithologists’ Union.