Ash-throated Crake

Mustelirallus albicollis (Vieillot, 1819)

Ash-throated Crake, Mustelirallus albicollis, is a rail in the family Rallidae and breeds in northern, south-central and south-eastern South America. It was described by Vieillot in 1819. The species has two separate subspecies ranges, with one in Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, the Guianas and far north-eastern Ecuador, and the other in eastern and southern Brazil, south-eastern Peru, northern and eastern Bolivia, eastern Paraguay, far northern Argentina and far northern Uruguay. It uses wet and damp places such as marshes, swamps, rice fields, savanna and pastures, and is usually found in the drier parts of marshes and swamps.

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots

Breeding range

South America: n, sc, se