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Lingiari has or used to have 70 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Buff-banded Rail.
We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.
Buff-banded Rail
Hypotaenidia philippensis andrewsi
Status: Endangered
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories
Hypotaenidia philippensis andrewsi is found across 1 electorates.
The Buff-banded Rail Islands) is a short billed rail, with a slight size difference between males and females. Both sexes are similar in appearance with russet-flecked dusky crown, a light rust nape and dark grey-black feathers with a tinge of brown on the mantle, back and scapular. The back is heavily spotted with white all the way down to, and including, the rump. Prominent white barring occurs on the dark grey-black tail. Wings are dusky with broad rust-buff bars grading whiter. The face has a prominent white-grey eyebrow, a broad rust stripe through the eye to the nape and grey cheeks. The eye is red. The sides of the throat and neck are pale grey. Black and white bars cover the ventral surface broken at the breast centre by a wide vertical buff band. The bill is brown, and legs and feet are light brown. Immature birds are duller without russet on the hind neck or buff band on the breast, and the eye is brown. Downy young are sooty black.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Climate change and severe weather
Invasive species and diseases
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
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