White-browed crake

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{{Speciesbox

| name = White-browed crake

| image = Porzana cinerea - Bueng Boraphet.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |title=Amaurornis cinerea |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |page=e.T22692723A93366932 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692723A93366932.en |year=2016 |access-date=8 April 2023}}

| genus = Poliolimnas

| parent_authority = Sharpe, 1893

| species = cinereus

| authority = (Vieillot, 1819)

| synonyms =

Porzana cinerea
Amaurornis cinerea
Porphyrio cinereus

}}

The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=8 July 2019}} It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct.

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