Chestnut-headed Crake
Anurolimnas castaneiceps (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869)
Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
Chestnut-headed Crake, Anurolimnas castaneiceps, is a rail in the family Rallidae that breeds in South America from southern Colombia to north-west Bolivia. It lives in humid places with thick undergrowth, including secondary forest and overgrown farm plots in tropical evergreen forest, and it can occur well away from water. The species is the only one in its genus. It was first described in 1869 by Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin. Two subspecies are recognised, with one in south Colombia and north-east Ecuador, and the other extending through east Ecuador and east Peru to south-west Brazil and north-west Bolivia.
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Breeding range
- South America: s Colombia to nw Bolivia
