Gray-necked Wood Rail - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by Rogerio Araújo Dias
Location: Brasilia, Brazil

Aramides cajanea

Identification

Large. Bill moderately long, yellowish at base, greenish at tip; eyes, bare eyering, and legs coral red. Head and longish neck gray; throat paler; crown tinged brown; upperparts olive; breast and sides cinnamon rufous; rearparts including abdomen, rump, and tail black; primaries rufous chestnut (usually concealed at rest). Immatures are duller and the bill and legs are dusky.

Distribution

Pacific coast south to Baudó Mountains; otherwise generally throughout Central and South America: Central Mexico south to northern Argentina and Uruguay. Also in Trinidad.

Taxonomy

Subspecies¹

• A. c. mexicanus - S Mexico (Tamaulipas to Chiapas)
• A. c. albiventris - Yucatán Peninsula, Cozumel I., Belize and adj. n Guatemala
• A. c. vanrossemi - S Mexico (Oaxaca) to sw Guatemala and w El Salvador
• A. c. pacificus - Caribbean slope of Honduras and Nicaragua
• A. c. plumbeicollis - Caribbean lowlands of ne Costa Rica
• A. c. latens - San Miguel Islands and Pearl Islands (Panama)
• A. c. morrisoni - Pearl Islands (San José and Pedro González)
• A. c. cajanea - Costa Rica to n Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and the Guianas

Habitat

To 2300m.

References

1. Clements James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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