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Giant wood rail: Aramides ypecaha (Vieillot, 1819) 15 Red-winged wood rail: Aramides calopterus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878: 16 Slaty-breasted wood rail: Aramides saracura (Spix, 1825) 17 Ridgway's rail: Rallus obsoletus Ridgway, 1874: 18 Clapper rail: Rallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789: 19 Aztec rail: Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874: 20 ...
The nest is a raised platform built with marsh vegetation and covered by a canopy.This is to hide the eggs of this bird from predators that are searching from above. [3]The king rail interbreeds with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) where their ranges overlap; It can be argued that these two birds belong to the same species according to the biological species concept.
The family exhibits considerable diversity in its forms, and includes such ubiquitous species as the crakes, coots, and gallinule; other rail species are extremely rare or endangered. Many are associated with wetland habitats, some being semi-aquatic like waterfowl (such as the coot), but many more are wading birds or shorebirds.
Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus). Rallus is a genus of wetland birds of the rail family.Sometimes, the genera Lewinia and Gallirallus are included in it. Six of the species are found in the Americas, and the three species found in Eurasia, Africa and Madagascar are very closely related to each other, suggesting they are descended from a single invasion of a New World ancestor.
The grey-cowled wood rail is regarded as being sister species with the russet-naped wood rail, [6] one of the nine members of the genus Aramides, of which the grey-cowled wood rail is included in. The two were classified as subspecies of a single species by James L. Peters in the 1934 edition of his Check-list of Birds of the World , before ...
A study of the diet of brown skuas on Inaccessible Island confirmed this, but found that although skuas do eat adults of this species, the rail and other landbirds formed only a small part of the diet of that seabird, especially compared to their abundance on the island. They noted that the landbirds alarm-called when brown skuas were seen. [23]
Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family. The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species. [2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance". [3]
The nominate subspecies' breeding habitat is wet meadows, fens and shallow marshes across Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States and the entire northern Canada–US border Great Plains to the Great Lakes. These northern populations of yellow rail migrate to the southeastern coastal United States. Little is known about ...