Yellow-breasted Crake
Laterallus flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783)
Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
Yellow-breasted Crake, Laterallus flaviventer, is a rail of marshes, grassy pond and lake margins, rice fields and flooded grassland across the Caribbean, Central America and much of South America, with breeding range from North America through Middle America to south-eastern South America. It is also recorded on several Caribbean islands. The species has a distinctive facial pattern, with a dark line through the eye and a pale supercilium set on a generally buff face, a combination not shared by other New World rails. Adults of the nominate form show brown upperparts, a white throat, a buff-yellow breast, and barred flanks and belly.
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America, South America: Caribbean and s Mexico to se SA
