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Location: Andaman Islands

Rallina canningi

[edit] Identification

34cm.

• Chestnut body
• Black-and-white belly-barring
• Green bill and legs
  

Juveniles duller and less prominently barred below.

[edit] Distribution

Found only in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species.^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Marshy jungle.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: A throaty croak kroop kroop
Alarm: a sharp chik

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. BirdLife International

• List of references

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