Grey-breasted Crake

Laterallus exilis (Temminck, 1831)

Grey-breasted Crake, Laterallus exilis, is a rail in the family Rallidae that breeds from Guatemala through Middle America and across Amazonia to south-eastern South America. It lives in several separate parts of that broad range, including Central America, the Guianas, much of Amazonian Brazil and neighbouring countries, and Trinidad. It is associated with places that have shallow standing water, such as marsh edges, river and lake margins, wet meadows and rice fields, and it also occurs in drier open areas like pastures and airfields. The sexes are alike, and the species is monotypic.

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: Guatemala through Amazonia and se SA