1 Nov 2019

Critter of the Week: The Auckland Island Rail

From Afternoons, 3:30 pm on 1 November 2019

Our critter this week is the Auckland Island rail – NZ’s rarest rail only found in subantarctic Auckland Islands group.

 Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador, Nicola Toki says it's probably flightless, and definitely territorial, sedentary and diurnal.

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