Yellow-breasted crake
| Yellow-breasted crake | |
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| Yellow-breasted crake at Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Porzana |
| Species: | P. flaviventer |
| Binomial name | |
| Porzana flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Poliolimnas flaviventer | |
The yellow-breasted crake (Porzana flaviventer) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and possibly Ecuador.
Its natural habitat is swamps.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Porzana flaviventer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
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