Yellow-breasted crake

Yellow-breasted crake
Yellow-breasted crake at Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Porzana (disputed)
Species:	P. flaviventer
Binomial name
Porzana flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms
Hapalocrex flaviventer Micropygia flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783) Poliolimnas flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783)

The yellow-breasted crake (Porzana flaviventer) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was formerly sometimes placed in the obsolete genus Poliolimnas or united with the Ocellated crake in Micropygia, and is now occasionally separated in a monotypic genus Hapalocrex. While it does not seem to be part of Porzana proper but belong to the Coturnicops-Laterallus clade, its precise relationships are still insufficiently resolved.

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

Its natural habitat is swamps.

External links

• Yellow-breasted crake videos, images and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection