Lord Howe Island woodhen  (Gallirallus sylvestris)

Range

Endemic to Lord Howe Island in the southwest Pacific off the mainland of Australia (4).

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

Habitat

When the island was discovered in 1788, the Lord Howe woodhen was found throughout the island, but from the mid-19th Century it became restricted to the mountaintops (4). At high altitudes this species inhabits gnarled mossy forest, which is unique to the mountain summits, and in the lowlands the preferred habitat is kentia palm (Howea fosterana) forest (5).

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