Giant Wood Rail
Aramides ypecaha (Vieillot, 1819)
Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
Giant Wood Rail, Aramides ypecaha, is a rail of South America, breeding from Paraguay into south-eastern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina. It is a bird of lowland wet places, including marshes, lightly wooded swamps, gallery forest, and fields or pasture close to water and cover. The species is monotypic. Adults show a large mustard-yellow bill, red eyes, and red legs and feet, with a bluish grey face and upper chest, a white chin, a rust-red nape, an olive back, and black tail coverts and tail.
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Breeding range
- South America: e Paraguay to se Brazil, Uruguay and ne Argentina
