Giant Wood Rail - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Stanley Jones
Entre Rios Province, Argentina, October, 2019

Aramides ypecaha

Identification

41–45 cm (16-17¾ in)

• Olive upperparts
• Chestnut hind neck
• Black tail
• Pale bluish-grey face and foreneck
• Brownish-pink flanks and upper breast
• Reddish-pink legs and iris
• Bill: pale orange at the base through apple green to greyish yellow at the tip

Distribution

South America: found in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Marshes, open wooded swamps. Fields and pastures near water.

Behaviour

Diet

There is not much information available about their diet. They appear to forage on the ground for insects and have been recorded as eating a snake.

Breeding

The clutch contains four or 5 eggs. The nest is constructed from grasses and reed stems, and placed about 1 m above the water.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Taylor, B. (2020). Giant Wood-rail (Aramides ypecaha). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/53641 on 18 January 2020).

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Giant Wood Rail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Giant_Wood_Rail

External Links

Search for photos of Giant Wood Rail in the gallery

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1