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Guam Rail
Gallirallus owstoni
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Mythic
Leader · Swoop
Counts as two birds: while active, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with another bird in play).
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Wikapialpha version
Guam Rail
Gallirallus owstoni
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Mythic
Counts as two birds: while active, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with another bird in play).
Gallirallus owstoni
Photo: © Greg Hume (original photo) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The Guam rail (Gallirallus owstoni), known locally and in Chamorro as ko'ko', is a small, terrestrial bird endemic to Guam in the Rallidae family. They are one of the island's few remaining endemic bird species. The species became extinct in the wild in the early 1980s when biologists captured the remaining wild population to establish a breeding program. They have since been successfully introduced to the nearby Rota and Cocos islands. In 2019, they became the second bird species to be reclassified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature from Extinct in the Wild to Critically Endangered.
Adult male and female plumage is primarily brown with barred black-and-white plumage on their underside. Their heads are brown with a grey stripe running above the eye and a medium-length grey bill. They have strong legs with long toes that help them walk over marshy ground. Their most common vocalizations are short "kip" notes, but also screeches during the breeding season.
Guam rail numbers fell drastically due to predation by invasive brown tree snakes. The species is now being bred in captivity by the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources on Guam, and at some mainland U.S. zoos. Since 1995, more than 100 rails have been introduced on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in an attempt to establish a wild breeding colony. In 2010, 16 birds were released onto Cocos Island, with 12 more being introduced in 2012.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Guam rail, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Mythic.
Every Mythic card has 160 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 60