Paint-billed crake

Paint-billed crake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Mustelirallus
Species: M. erythrops
Binomial name
Mustelirallus erythrops
(Sclater, 1867)
Synonyms

Neocrex erythrops

The paint-billed crake (Mustelirallus erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. There is one record of the bird in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland.

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