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The Weka or woodhen ( Gallirallus australis ) is a flightless bird species of the rail family.
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Weka and Gallirallus
* Gallirallus australis Weka
* The Buff Weka, Gallirallus australis hectori
However, Weka were later decided as a single species in the Gallirallus genus with four subspecies.
The Buff Weka ( Gallirallus australis hectori ) formerly inhabited the eastern districts of the South Island but is now confined to Chatham Island and Pitt Island to which it was introduced in the early 1900s, and where they are widely hunted and eaten, being considered ' introduced '.
The North Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis greyi ) is represented by original populations in Northland and Poverty Bay, and by liberations elsewhere from that stock.
The Western Weka ( Gallirallus australis australis ) is found mainly in the northern and western regions of the South Island from Nelson to Fiordland.
The Stewart Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis scotti ) is smaller than the other subspecies and, like the Western Weka, has two colour phases ; a chestnut form-similar to the chestnut-phase Western Weka-and a black phase which is not as dark as the black Western Weka.
Contact call is easely confused with that of the Weka ( Gallirallus australis ), but is generally more resonant and deeper.
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.
** Weka, North Island ( Gallirallus australis ) ( 4 pair released 2000-06-16 )
Weka and is
The common name Weka is a Māori word.
Where the Weka is relatively common, their furtive curiosity leads them to search around houses and camps for food scraps, or anything unfamiliar and transportable.
The breeding season varies, but when food is plentiful, Weka can raise up to four broods throughout the whole year.
The Weka Pass Railway is a New Zealand heritage railway based in Waipara, North Canterbury.
The group's main locomotive, A 428 is owned by the A 428 Preservation Society, but leased to the Weka Pass Railway in 1983.
However, it is nominally part of the WPR fleet, and is used to get large machinery up into the Weka Pass.
The Weka Pass Railway at 13 km is the most lengthy of these.
In association football, Kapiti is represented by Kapiti Coast United, who play at Weka Park in Raumati Beach.
After defeating a dragon like creature and knocking Weka Dart out of a tree, she has a frightening encounter with the shade of Brona, the most legendary evil from the Four Lands, and Grianne is captured by a party of Demons.
Weka and flightless
This meant that all the ecological niches occupied by mammals elsewhere were occupied by either insects or birds, leading to an unusually large number of flightless birds, including the Kiwi, the Weka, the Moa, and the Kakapo.
Weka and bird
* Weka, a New Zealand bird
Weka and species
Johann Georg Wagler's suggestion of the Ocydromus genus in 1830 to describe each Weka as a species was generally adopted.
Weka are classed as a vulnerable species.
Weka and .
RapidMiner, LIONsolver, KNIME, Weka, ODM, Shogun toolbox, Orange, Apache Mahout, scikit-learn, mlpy, MCMLL, and OpenCV are software suites containing a variety of machine learning algorithms.
Weka are sturdy brown birds, about the size of a chicken.
Weka usually lay eggs between August and January ; both sexes help to incubate.
Weka have sturdy legs and reduced wings.
Western Weka photographed on the West Coast, New Zealand near Karamea.
Distinguished by dark red-brown and black streaking on the breast, the Western Weka has two distinct colour phases, that of the southernmost range showing a greater degree of black.
Weka occupy areas such as forests, sub-alpine grassland, sand dunes, rocky shores and modified semi-urban environments.
Weka are important in the bush as seed dispersers, distributing seeds too large for smaller berry-eating birds.
On average, female Weka lay three creamy or pinkish eggs blotched with brown and mauve.
The Department of Conservation's Weka recovery plan, approved in 1999, aims to improve the conservation status of threatened Weka, clarify the status of data deficient Weka, maintain the non-threatened status of other Weka, and eventually restore all Weka to their traditional ranges as a significant component of the ecosystems.
woodhen and bird
When explorers first discovered Lord Howe Island in 1788, they identified 15 bird species including the then common woodhen.
woodhen and species
Following success with the woodhen, there have been recovery efforts for other endemic species on Lord Howe Island, including the Lord Howe Flax Snail ( Placostylus bivaricosus ) and the Lord Howe Currawong ( Strepera graculina crissalis ).
Gallirallus and australis
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Gallirallus and is
Genetic evidence suggests that the Water Rail is the most closely related of its genus to the Pacific Gallirallus rails, and is basal to that group.
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 Lord Howe Woodhen, Gallirallus sylvestris, also known as the Lord Howe Island Woodhen or Lord Howe ( Island ) Rail, is a flightless bird of the rail family ( Rallidae ).
The Guam Rail, Gallirallus owstoni, ( Local name: Ko ' ko ' ) is a flightless bird, endemic to the United States territory of Guam.
Gallirallus is a genus of rails in the Rallidae family.
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