Buff-Banded Rail

Buff-Banded Rail is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. The species was formerly placed in the genus Hypotaenidia. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson described and illustrated the buff-banded rail in his multi-volume Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in the Philippines. He used the French name Le rasle rayé des Philippines and the Latin name Rallus Philippensis Striatus. (Wikipedia, general species account).

Buff-Banded Rail is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail comprising several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific, including the Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand (Wikipedia, general species account). It utilises a range of moist or wetland habitats with low, dense vegetation for cover. It is usually quite shy but may become very tame and bold in some circumstances, such as in island resorts within the Great Barrier Reef region. (Wikipedia, general species account).