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Parque do Zizo, Brazil.

Porzana albicollis

[edit] Identification

• Brownish back with black and olive-brown streaks
• Slate-grey underparts
• Pale grey throat
• Black tail
• Lower flanks and under tail coverts barred black and white
• Short bill
  

Sexes are alike.

[edit] Distribution

This species is found in South America from Colombia to Argentina east of the Andes.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies¹

• P. a. olivacea:

• Northern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname; Trinidad

• P. a. albicollis:

• Eastern Brazil to Paraguay, eastern Bolivia and extreme northern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Swamps and areas of seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

Between 2 and 5 eggs are laid in a nest which is a large open bowl made out of dry grass, placed on the ground or just above and hidden between tree roots or by the grass.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and insect larvae and grass seeds.

[edit] Vocalisation

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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