Yellow-breasted crake

Yellow-breasted crake
Yellow-breasted crake at Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Porzana
Species: 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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