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	Unexplained Research - Calayan Rail
		A Calayan Rail is held after its discovery by Filipino and British wildlife researchers on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern Philippines, in this undated image made available by the expedition.
		During a May expedition to Calayan, about 320 miles north of Manila, a team member was walking in the forest when she saw a small group of unfamiliar dark brown birds with distinctive orange-red bills and legs, the British conservation group BirdLife International said in a press release Tuesday.
		"The Calayan rail is a relative of the internationally familiar moorhen, with bright red beak and legs contrasting sharply with its dark plumage," BirdLife said in a statement.
	www.unexplainedresearch.com /in_the_news/calayan_rail.html (889 words)

	Calayan Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis) is a flightless bird of the rail, moorhen, and coot family (Rallidae) that inhabits Calayan Island in the Philippines.
		The Calayan rail is one of the 20 known extant flightless rails.
		The Calayan Rail's genus, Gallirallus, includes many species of Southwest Pacific islands, of which the most familiar in the English-speaking world is the Weka of New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calayan_Rail (255 words)

	New bird species discovered "just in time"
		The Calayan Rail is a relative of the internationally familiar Moorhen, with bright red beak and legs contrasting strikingly with its dark plumage.
		Calayan is part of the Babuyan group of islands, at the northern end of the Philippines archipelago, and 1,000 kilometres south of the Japanese island of Okinawa.
		Calayan lies 70 km north of Luzon in deep water and is volcanic in origin.
	www.birdlife.org /news/pr/2004/08/calayan_rail.html (1191 words)

	New bird species discovered in Calayan ! - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Calayan is the largest island in the Babuyan island group that lies between Batanes and Luzon.
		Eighteen of the 20 living species of flightless rail are considered threatened, and the majority of rail species that have become extinct since 1600 were flightless said a 1998 handbook on rails.
		The bird, named the "Calayan Rail," is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the joint Filipino-British expedition that found it.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=15386 (1344 words)

	Remarkable rail discovered "just in time"
		In fact, the number of sightings indicated that the rail was quite common in the area.
		The rail appears to be restricted to forests on coralline limestone areas, which probably make up less than half the island’s surface, and the extent of their suitable habitat is likely to be much less than 100 km², and could be smaller than 10 km².
		On the basis of its small currently known population and range size, the Calayan Rail appears to qualify as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2004/08/calayan_rail.html (754 words)

	New bird species found in Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The bird, dubbed the "Calayan Rail", is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the expedition that found it.
		Local residents of Calayan island said the bird was known as "piding" and that they had even caught it for food in the past but they were unaware it was an unknown species.
		Rails are a type of ground-feeding, ground-nesting birds with straight, pointed bills.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040817034411.2kt6c6ja.html (233 words)

	New Flightless Bird Species Discovered in Philippines
		It belongs to the family Rallidae, which includes rails, gullinules and coots, many of which are migratory birds, but the Calayan rail is flightless, or nearly so.
		The Calayan rail is a relative of the internationally familiar moorhen, its bright red beak and legs contrasting with its dark plumage.
		Eighteen of the 20 living species of flightless rails are considered threatened, and the majority of rail species that have become extinct since 1600 were also flightless.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/aug2004/2004-08-17-05.asp (842 words)

	Forest and Bird Media Release
		Ornithologists on an expedition to the Calayan Island in the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines have discovered a rare near-flightless rail, related to New Zealand's weka.
		The Calayan rail only occurs in an area less than 100 square kilometres and may even be restricted to an area of less than 10km.
		Unfamiliar loud, rasping calls drew her attention to a group of four rails in the undergrowth, and shortly afterwards she watched them silently cross the trail and begin foraging by turning over dried leaves with a side-to-side motion of their bills.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /mediarelease/2004/0818_rarewekarelative.asp (878 words)

	3 RP-based conservation groups win int'l awards - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After accidentally discovering an endemic flightless bird now called the Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis), in the Babuyan Islands in May last year, Carmela Española sought funding from the BPCP to preserve the bird species that can only be found in the Philippines.
		The rail is the size of a small crow with dark brown plumage and bright orange red legs and beak.
		Calayan residents said they used to catch the rail, locally known as piding, for food, unaware it was a rare species.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=42518 (813 words)

	Calayan Rail: New bird discovered in Babuyan Islands
		The discovery was made by a team of nine volunteer wildlife researches from the Philippines and the United Kingdom, who conducted a survey of birds, mammals, repriles, and amphibians on the islands from April to June.
		Altough it orange-red bill and legs look similar to the Okinawa Rail from the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, the Calayan Rail does not have a white stripe below the eye and fl white barring in its underparts, said Gonzalez, who is one of the authors of the scientific paper describing the new species.
		“In the midst of the disapprearing rainforests of the Philippines and the drastic loss of biodiversity, the discovery of the Calayan Rail in one of the most fragile habitats in the archipelago is a sign of hope that it’s not too late to conserve these remote rainforests.
	www.lakbaypilipinas.com /flora_and_fauna/calayan-rail.html (880 words)

	BBC News Online \| Science/Nature \| New bird spotted in Philippines
		They say the Calayan rail is flightless "or nearly so": it belongs to a global family including coots and moorhens.
		In order to register the rail as a new species the expedition had to kill one bird, and when they dissected it they found its flight muscles were too weak to carry it far, prompting their conclusion that it is "almost" flightless.
		Most members of the rail family are waterbirds, though in tropical parts of Asia many are forest dwellers like the Calayan rail.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_3569000/3569160.stm?(none) (549 words)

	New Bird Species Discovered ÃÆ’ÃÂ¢ÃÂ¢Ã¢â¬Å¡ÃÂ¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Å“Just In ...
		But unlike its familiar relative, the Calayan Rail is flightless, or nearly so, and found only on the small island after which it is named.
		The Babuyan Islands Expedition team were surveying the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of the island group when they discovered the rail in lowland forest on the island of Calayan, at an altitude of 300 m.
		The Okinawa Rail from the Japanese Ryukyu Islands is the most similar rail in appearance, but there are distinct differences in voice and colour pattern.
	www.freedomunderground.org /view.php?v=3&t=3&aid=8458 (853 words)

	New Bird Species Found In Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Many of the 8,500 residents of Calayan, an island in the remote Babuyan group in the northern Philippines, knew it was there and occasionally caught it by mistake in their chicken traps.
		Now the Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis) is being hailed as a previously unknown species, and moves are afoot to try to ensure it does not become extinct as soon as it has been discovered.
		BirdLife International estimates there are up to 200 pairs of rail on the island but fears for their future because they appear to live only in a small part of forest on limestone areas.
	rense.com /general56/dpdhil.htm (478 words)

	Atenista.Net - Your Portal To The Atenean Community > Philippines In The Science Map
		Española chanced upon the rail, known to locals as “piding,” before noon on May 11, 2004, while she was doing an inventory of birds in the island of Calayan, the largest island of the Babuyan island group.
		Allen’s subsequent findings in UK further validated that the rail is indeed new to science and is endemic to Calayan island, meaning that it exists only on this island an nowhere else in the Philippines and in the world.
		The Calayan Rail is related to the Barrel rail or the “tikling,” a common sight in rice paddies.
	www.atenista.net /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2414.html (1483 words)

	AquaNews - The Vancouver Aquarium's Aquatic Environmental News Network
		The Calayan Rail has a bright red beak and legs, which contrast strikingly with its dark plumage.
		Unlike its more familiar relative, the Moorhen, the Calayan Rail (Gallirallus calayanensis) is almost certainly flightless and found only on the small island after which it is named.
		The team conducted a 10-week survey of the terrestrial fauna in the islands of Camiguin, Babuyan Claro, Calayan and Dalupiri with the aim of compiling inventories of the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians present, identifying threats to the fauna and environment and identifying habitats for priority conservation.
	www.vanaqua.org /aquanew/fullnews.php?id=1556 (432 words)

	Researchers find new species of flightless bird - guampdn.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		New discovery: A Calayan Rail is held after its discovery by Filipino and British wildlife researchers on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern Philippines, in this undated image made available by the expedition.
		Unlike its close relative the moorhen, the Calayan rail is "almost certainly flightless" and may be new to science, the British conservation group BirdLife International said Aug. 17.
		Unlike its close relative the moorhen, the Calayan rail is ''almost certainly flightless'' and may be new to science, the British conservation group BirdLife International said in a press release Tuesday.
	guampdn.com /communities/news/stories/20040821/bayanihan/1087200.html (420 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The researchers had been doing an inventory of wildlife in Calayan, which is one of a volcanic chain of islands off the main Philippine island of Luzon and can only be reached by boat, for weeks before finding the creature.
		Filipino wildlife biologist Carmela Espanola made the discovery in May when she saw a group of unfamiliar birds foraging in the undergrowth as she was walking through the rainforest.
		Christened the Calayan Rail, the bird with its bright and orange-led legs and beak is believed to be only found in the Philippines.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/08/18/d40818011111.htm (480 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| New bird spotted in Philippines
		The discovery of the Calayan rail is described in Forktail, a journal of Asian ornithology published by the OBC.
		The researchers, the Babuyan Islands expedition team, were surveying the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of the Babuyan group at the northern end of the Philippines archipelago.
		On 11 May one of the team, Carmela Espanola, was walking in the forest almost 1,000 feet (300 m) up the slopes of Calayan when she spotted a small group of unfamiliar dark brown birds with distinctive orange-red bills and legs near a stream.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3569160.stm (556 words)

	Planet Diary Archive 2004 - Fauna - New Bird Species Found in Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The species has been named the Calayan rail after the island where it was found about 320 miles (510 kilometers) north of Manila.
		The Calayan rail's discovery has scientists hopping with excitement.
		The rail was likely protected because of the island's remoteness.
	www.phschool.com /science/planetdiary/archive04/faun1082804.html (232 words)

	science, engineering & technology news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The bird, a rail, was found in the forests of Calayan.
		The Calayan rail is at risk from human activities as it is almost flightless and found nowhere else.
		BirdLife said the Calayan rail is a relative of the internationally familiar moorhen, with bright red beak and legs contrasting sharply with its dark plumage.
	www.scenta.co.uk /scenta/news.cfm?cit_id=1240&FAArea1=customWidgets.content_view_1 (281 words)

	WWF \| Global Challenges \| Educating Future Leaders \| Bird Discovery
		Española recently completed her degree and is working on the team that is conducting a wildlife survey of the Babuyan island group in the Philippines.
		Ornithologists last surveyed the island where the bird was discovered, Calayan, 100 years ago.
		The Calayan rail is flightless or nearly so, and it belongs to a bird family that includes coots and moorhens.
	www.worldwildlife.org /challenges/efn_discovery.cfm (218 words)

	USATODAY.com - New bird species found in Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MANILA (AP) — Filipino and British wildlife researchers say they've stumbled upon what appears to be a new species of flightless bird found only on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern Philippines.
		A Calayan Rail is held after its discovery by Filipino and British wildlife researchers on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern Philippines.
		8/17/2004 9:38 AM A Calayan Rail is held after its discovery by Filipino and British wildlife researchers on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern Philippines.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/2004-08-17-new-bird_x.htm (463 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		In the 30 years that followed, the rails had developed little claws on their wings that helped them scramble through the tall grass of the island.
		Rails are (I think) the closest relatives to the "Terror Birds" of ancient South America, whose wrist joints indicate a clawed hand of sorts rather than a proper wing.
		Not saying these little rails are direct descendents of the mighty terror birds, but that they could have shared a common clawed ancestor.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=15&pid=132425 (932 words)

	Scientists identify new bird species
		Researchers used her notes, photographs and recordings of the bird's loud, rasping call to determine that the Calayan Rail is new to science.
		The Calayan Rail isn't under immediate threat, but new roads may jeopardize its habitat.
		The Calayan Rail resembles the flying Okinawa Rail of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but it has a different voice and colour.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2004/08/17/rail_bird040817.html (1151 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - New species of flightless bird's days may be numbered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by development on the remote island.
		Research so far shows that, unlike its close relative the moorhen, the Calayan rail, given the scientific name Gallirallus calayanensis, is almost certainly flightless.
		The expedition team was surveying wildlife of the island group when it discovered the rail in lowland forest, last visited by ornithologists 100 years ago.
	news.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=956432004 (522 words)

	bp conservation programme
		The Calayan Rail Gallirallus calayanensis, an endemic of Calayan Island in the Babuyan Islands, Philippines, was discovered and described last year by Allen et al.
		The proposed project will produce a thorough threat assessment for the rail and its habitat and formulate workable conservation measures in collaboration with local government units, non-government organizations, and other institutions.
		Notes on the habitat requirements, threats, and ecology of the Calayan Rail will be made from field observations and from interviews with local people.
	conservation.bp.com /projects/206005_proj.asp (203 words)

	Other Information of- Calayan Rail. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis) is a flightless birɗ of the Ralliɗae (Ralliɗae) that inhabits Calayan Islanɗ in the Philippines.
		Its habitat seems to be restricteɗ to forests on coralline limestone areas on Calayan anɗ extenɗs to a total of less than 100km
		The Calayan Rail's genus, Gallirallus, incluɗes many species of Southwest Pacific Ocean islanɗs, of which the most familiar in the English-speaking worlɗ is the Weka of New Zealanɗ.
	calayan.rail.en.moneylist.info (887 words)

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