Laysan crake  (Porzana palmeri)

Species information

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Range

Endemic to Laysan Island in the Hawaiian archipelago, the Laysan crake briefly occupied several other Hawaiian Islands in the years before its extinction, as attempts were made to conserve it via translocations (1).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Previously found amongst grass tussocks and thickets on Laysan Island, a site considered to be a very important seabird colony, as well as previously being home to five endemic land birds (2).

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