Hypotaenidia woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889:320)
Woodford's rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rallina Woodfordi Ogilvie-Grant, 1889 (basionym); Gallirallus woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889)
Conservation Status
Last record: 6 December 1888 (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889 [record; date]; Webb, 1992:54 [type specimen only])
Rediscovered [by implication] (BirdLife International, 2022)
Diamond (1987) speculated that G. woodfordi was Extinct on Bougainville (subspecies tertius, now H. tertia) and Guadalcanal (nominate). Today H. woodfordi is known to be extant on Guadalcanal (BirdLife International, 2022).
Distribution & Habitat
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Type locality: "Aola, Guadalcanar." (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889:320)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ogilvie Grant, W. R. (1889). Third contribution to the list of birds collected by Mr C.M. Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago. Annals and magazine of natural history (6) 4: 320.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2014). Hypotaenidia woodfordi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T22727451A40794468. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T22727451A40794468.en. Accessed on 10 August 2025.
BirdLife International. (2016). Hypotaenidia woodfordi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22727451A94949523. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727451A94949523.en. Accessed on 10 August 2025.
BirdLife International. (2022). Hypotaenidia woodfordi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T22727451A210640619. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T22727451A210640619.en. Accessed on 10 August 2025.
Carter, E., B. Taylor, J. del Hoyo, D. A. Christie, and N. Collar (2023). Woodford's Rail (Gallirallus woodfordi), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.woorai1.02
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. J., Christie, D. A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Diamond, Jared M. (1987). Extant Unless Proven Extinct? Or Extinct Unless Proven Extant? Conservation Biology 1: 77-79.
Dutson, G. (2011). Birds of Melanesia: Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. London: Christopher Helm.
Hadden, Don. (2002). Woodford's rail (Nesoclopeus woodford) on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. Notornis 49(2): 115-121, Plates 6-8.
Webb, Horace P. (1992). Field observations of the birds of Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. Emu 92: 52-57. https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9920052