{{short description|Species of bird}} {{speciesbox | name = Blue-faced rail | image = Gymnocrex rosenbergii - Andrey Mikhaylov - 507458726.jpeg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Gymnocrex rosenbergii'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T22692604A110481172 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22692604A110481172.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Gymnocrex | species = rosenbergii | authority = (Schlegel, 1866) | synonyms = }}
The '''blue-faced rail''' ('''''Gymnocrex rosenbergii''''') also '''bald-faced rail''' or '''Schlegel's rail''', is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and rivers.
It has been evaluated as a threatened species since October 1, 2016, by the IUCN Red List due to habitat loss and pollution.<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/>
By 2000, the estimated population of the blue-faced rail was in the low 2000's to the high 9000's, however it has steadily declined since then.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=Blue-faced Rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii) - BirdLife species factsheet |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/blue-faced-rail-gymnocrex-rosenbergii/details |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411140638/http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/blue-faced-rail-gymnocrex-rosenbergii/details |archive-date=11 April 2017 }}</ref>
== Description == left|thumb|Blue-faced rail on an Indonesian stamp The blue-faced rail is a 30 cm, medium-sized, secretive, forest rail.<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/> It has a conspicuous patch of bare cobalt-blue skin around the eye<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/> that gives the bird its distinctive name. The blue-faced rail makes a snoring sound apparently similar to that of the snoring rail,<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/> and it also gives off a quiet clucking sound in alarm.<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/>
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==External links== * [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=2890 Blue-faced Rail] on the BirdLife Species Factsheet.
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blue-faced rail Category:Endemic birds of Sulawesi blue-faced rail Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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