Plumbeous rail
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Pardirallus |
| Species: | P. sanguinolentus
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| Pardirallus sanguinolentus (Swainson, 1838)
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The plumbeous rail (Pardirallus sanguinolentus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, and is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitat is swamps. Adult plumbeous rail are distinguished by their gray and brown plumage and long colorful bill. The plumbeous rail is the only long-billed rail expected to be found in the Andean marshes with the exception of the rare Bogota rail. Fossils of this species are known from the of Chile.[2]
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pardirallus sanguinolentus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22692772A93368937. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692772A93368937.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Alarcón-Muñoz, Jhonatan; Labarca, Rafael; Soto-Acuña, Sergio (2020-12-01). "The late Pleistocene-early Holocene rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae) of Laguna de Tagua Tagua Formation, central Chile, with the description of a new extinct giant coot". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 104: 102839. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102839. ISSN 0895-9811.
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