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Tristan Moorhen
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Tristan Moorhen
Gallinula nesiotis
The Tristan moorhen and the Gough moorhen are two species of flightless rails. The Tristan moorhen is an extinct species from the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha. It was very similar to the Gough moorhen of Gough Island, located 395 miles to the southeast.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 362.