Inaccessible Island rail: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Inaccessible Island rail lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Atlantisia rogersi
Group	Herons, storks, cranes & flamingos
Found in	1 country
Continents	Africa
Class	Bird
Order	Gruiformes
Family	Rallidae

Where does the Inaccessible Island rail live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Inaccessible Island rail in 1 country or territory across Africa. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Saint Helena

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the Inaccessible Island rail?

The Inaccessible Island rail (Atlantisia rogersi) is a bird in the order Gruiformes and the family Rallidae, genus Atlantisia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Inaccessible Island rail

The Inaccessible Island rail, or Inaccessible rail (Laterallus rogersi), is a small bird species of the rail family, Rallidae. Endemic to Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago in the isolated south Atlantic, it is the smallest extant flightless bird in the world. The species was formally described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923 but had first come to the attention of scientists 50 years earlier. The Inaccessible Island rail's taxonomic affinities and origin were a long-standing mystery; in 2018 its closest relative was identified as the South American dot-winged crake, and it was decided that both species are best classified in the genus Laterallus.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Inaccessible Island rail (revision 1381357511), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q757000 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).