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Julian R W Reid and Brydie M Hill, October 2005
ISBN 0 642 551936
This report describes three aspects of research into the Cocos Buff-banded Rail Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi (CBBR), an endemic taxon of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian Offshore Territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of two atolls, located approximately 2900km north-west of Perth, 975km west-southwest of Christmas Island and 1,000km south-west of Java (lat. 12° 12'S, long. 96° 54'E). The northern atoll comprises a single island atoll, North Keeling Island or Pulu Keeling National Park, managed by Parks Australia North. The southern atoll consists of 26 islands surrounding a large lagoon.
The CBBR is listed as Endangered under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999. The research was commissioned by the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) as part of a work program contracted to the Australian National University (ANU) to prepare a National Recovery Plan for the CBBR.
A previous survey of CBBR on North Keeling Island, conducted in 1999 (Reid 2000), led to the first quantitative estimates of the rail's population density and its island-wide population size.
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