|Scientific Name:||Gymnocrex rosenbergii| |Species
Authority:||(Schlegel, 1866)| |Red List Category &
Criteria:||Vulnerable C2a(i) ver 3.1| |Reviewer/s:||Butchart, S.
& Symes, A.| |Contributor/s:||Bishop, K. & O'Brien, T.| This
rail qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a small population,
which is likely to be undergoing a continuing decline and severe
fragmentation owing primarily to habitat loss. However, the few
confirmed recent records may in part reflect its reclusive
nature and further surveys are needed to clarify its status.
|Range Description:||Gymnocrex rosenbergii is known from
Sulawesi and the nearby island of Peleng, Indonesia (BirdLife
International 2001). Specimen records and sightings suggest that
it is relatively widely distributed and locally fairly common.
However, it appears to have declined, and has probably
disappeared from much of the Minahasa peninsula, and indeed
lowland Sulawesi. Recent records derive from few localities,
suggesting that it is now rare and local, although its retir