Grey-necked Wood Rail

Aramides cajanea

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.
Grey-necked Wood Rail (Aramides cajanea) Laguna El Oconal, Villa Rica, Pasco, Peru. Jan 19, 2020 Aramides cajanea,Geotagged,Grey-necked Wood Rail,Peru,Summer

Naming

There are eight accepted subspecies:
⤷  'mexicanus'', Bangs, 1907 - Southern Mexico.
⤷  ''albiventris'', Lawrence, 1867 - Yucatán to Belize and Northern Guatemala.
⤷  'vanrossemi'', Dickey, 1929 - Southern Mexico to Southern Guatemala and El Salvador.
⤷  'pacificus',' A. H. Miller & Griscom, 1921 - Caribbean slope of Honduras, and Nicaragua.
⤷  'plumbeicollis'', Zeledon, 1888 - Northeast Costa Rica.
⤷  ''latens'', Bangs & Penard, 1918 - San Miguel and Viveros .
⤷  'morrisoni'', Wetmore, 1946 - San José and Pedro González .
⤷  'cajanea'' - Costa Rica to Colombia, East through Venezuela and Trinidad to Brazil, and South to Northern Argentina and Uruguay.
Grey-necked Wood Rail in search of food A mysterious water bird of which we know little is searching for easy prey in the wetlands of the Pantanal. Aramides cajanea,Brazil,Grey-necked Wood Rail,Pantanal

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and swamps.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderGruiformes
FamilyRallidae
GenusAramides
SpeciesA. cajanea
Photographed in
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Netherlands
Peru