sentences:  The rail is a prized food for local people who catch it with traps made from strings of bark and hunt it with dogs.The only described nest was in an area well-used by local villagers, and the rail may be more adaptable to habitat changes than had been thought.There were also several sightings in northeast Halmahera in 2008 and 2011, extending the area in which this bird has been seen in recent years.