White-throated Crake

Laterallus albigularis (Lawrence, 1861)

White-throated Crake, Laterallus albigularis, is a rail of Middle America and South America, breeding from Nicaragua to Ecuador. It occurs in marshes, wet grassland, pastures, thickets, forest openings, and along the margins of ponds and watercourses. The sexes are alike, and the adult nominate bird shows a white throat and upper breast with a rufous face, neck sides and lower breast, plus olive-brown upperparts. Its belly, vent and undertail coverts are black and white barred. Other forms differ in head and throat colour.

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: Nicaragua to Ecuador