Gray-necked Wood-Rail (Aramides cajanea)

Taken in August 2016, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Known as Saracura-três-potes, in Portuguese.

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Thibaud Aronson

Lion

Sorry, Natalia. The accepted binomial for this species is A. cajanea, so I re-identified it as such. Posted 7 years ago
1. Natalia Cara
  
  Lion
  
  Well, the IUCN begs to differ, saying that the "Scientific Name: Aramides cajaneus (Müller, 1776)" and then listing "Synonym(s): Aramides cajanea".
  I totally agree with leaving comments correcting IDs and such, or even changing the ID if needed, but do not change the title of my photo without my permission. Posted 7 years ago

Thibaud Aronson

Lion

Crap, Natalia, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have assumed. Please also let me explain myself.
Over the last year, I've posted a number of comments on photos by various users, suggesting a different ID. A lot never get answered, and many who do agree with me, update the ID, but don't edit the title, which does irk me.
Plus, I've recently started trying to rectify discrepancies I've noticed in the taxonomy tree, for instance members of a same family being put in different orders because of varying taxonomies being used in their respective wiki pages. I'm also trying to remove duplicates for a same species that get created when people use different common names for identification.
I actually had uploaded a photo of this species myself, using A. cajaneus (my lifelist follows IOC, which uses that name). Ferdy ended up doing for my photo exactly what I did for yours, though he did not touch my title, and I changed it myself.
I certainly do not pretend to be a taxonomist, and am not really interested in which ending should be given to specific epithets. I just followed the ITIS, which is the classification Jungledragon aims to follow. Your photo was the only one left using the name A. cajaneus, and was therefore counted as a separate species from the other photos under A. cajanea. I figured it was a non-issue and just went ahead and did the change, and edited the title to match.
Again, I apologize, I should not have made that assumption. It won't happen again.
Posted 7 years ago

The Grey-necked Wood Rail

The Grey-necked Wood Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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Similar species: Crane-like Birds

Species identified by Thibaud Aronson