Hawaiian rail (SciiFii)

The Hawaiian rail (Zapornia sandwichensis), also known as the Hawaiian spotted rail and the Hawaiian crake is a species of diminutive rail that lives on Big Island of Hawaiʻi. It was once extinct since the late 19th century, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced to Hawaii to help boost biodiversity. It resembles the black crake, but with dark brown feathers as opposed to black feathers and is entirely flightless. It is a flightless bird that is found in shrubland and secondary growth on abandoned fields and, in times of danger, have the habit of hiding in Polynesian rat burrows. The conservation status of the Hawaiian rail is Vulnerable due to habitat loss and, rarely, historic poaching, however, thanks to conservationists, the Hawaiian rails are making a comeback and now tolerates the presence of Polynesian rats and pigs, due to genetic engineering, allowing the Hawaiian rails to survive and deal with invasive egg-eating mammals, which once lived on Hawaii before being eradicated by conservationists to protect the native birds on the island.
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