Paint-billed crake
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| Species: | M. erythrops
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| Mustelirallus erythrops (Sclater, 1867)
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The paint-billed crake (Mustelirallus erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
Taxonomy and etymology
This bird derives its name from its bright red beak.[2]
Description
This crake is small, measuring 18 to 20 centimetres (7.1 to 7.9 in) on average.[2]
Distribution
The paint-billed crake 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.
Behaviour
This bird is nocturnal, active primarily during the night.[2]
Breeding
This bird builds its nest on the ground, under the protection of vegetation in grassy fields.[2]
The paint-billed crake is a territorial bird.[2]
This crake lays a clutch of three to seven eggs that are coloured creamy buff and have large, reddish blotches near the blunt end of the egg. This egg is incubated for a period of 24 days, with the parent sitting on the nest, thus camouflaging the nest.[2]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Hauber, Mark E. (1 August 2014). The Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World's Bird Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-226-05781-1.
External links
- Associação Mãe-da-lua Paint-billed crake (Mustelirallus erythrops) - Photos and notes
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Mustelirallus
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Venezuela
- Birds of the Guianas
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of Bolivia
- Birds of Paraguay
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of the Caatinga
- Birds of the Atlantic Forest
- Galápagos Islands coastal fauna
- Birds described in 1867
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