Order: Gruiformes - Family: Rallidae Habitat: Ponds and marshes

All records since January 2014

Sounds
© Carlos Ferrari

Adult
© Silvia Loiacono Flanks barred black and white. Neck, breast sides and undertail coverts, cinnamon. Brown back. White underparts. Cark bill with green base. Brownish legs. Dark iris © Carlos González Ledo

Breeding
Chicks
© J. Simón Tagtachian © J. Simón Tagtachian
© RAP © Alfredo Sabaliauskas

Difference with Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius

© Silvia Loiacono Seen this afternopn (Saturday 30th) behind the restroom area at Brasil Access. It was spotted by Hugo Aguilar and together with Rufous-sided Crakes. On the left, Rufous-sided Crake, Laterallus melanophaius and on the right the Red-and-white one. The Red-and-white Crake is dorsally more reddish. Both legs and undertail coverts differ in colour.

Diet
© Cora Rimoldi Very secretive though its voice announces its presence. It moves among dense vegetation. Feeds on insects which pecks from the surface.

More phtographic records since January 2013