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Yellow-breasted crake

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Yellow-breasted crake
Yellow-breasted crake at Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil
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P. flaviventer
Binomial name
Porzana flaviventer
(Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms

Poliolimnas flaviventer

The yellow-breasted crake (Porzana flaviventer) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and possibly Ecuador.

Its natural habitat is swamps.

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