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Neocrex colombiana

[edit] Identification

19cm

• Brownish-olive upperparts, hindneck, flanks
• Slate-grey crown, sides of head, underparts
• White throat
• Pale buff abdomen and undertail coverts

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America: found in central Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

[edit] Taxonomy

Formerly lumped within Paint-billed Crake (N. erythrops).

[edit] Subspecies¹

• N. c. ripleyi:

• Caribbean lowlands of Panama and adjacent north-western Colombia

• N. c. colombiana:

• Santa Marta Mountains of north-eastern Colombia to coastal north-western Ecuador

[edit] Habitat

Wetlands, pastures and forest edges. Found at heights up to 2,100m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. BirdLife International
3. A Guide to the Birds of Colombia

• List of references

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