Buff-banded Rail

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: October–November · Most records: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines

Buff-banded Rail has been recorded at 352 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 17 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Western Treatment PlantAustralia2,004 records
2. Herdsman LakeAustralia1,249 records
3. Oxley Creek CommonAustralia1,032 records

Countries and regions with the most records

AustraliaNew ZealandPhilippinesSamoaPapua New GuineaIndonesiaMalaysiaVanuatu

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis) is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species comprises several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand (where it is known as the banded rail, or moho-pererū in Māori), and numerous smaller islands, covering a range of latitudes from the tropics to the subantarctic. The species was formerly placed in the genus Hypotaenidia.

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