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Gray-necked Wood Rail - BirdForum Opus

Aramides cajanea
Photo by Fabio

Description

Large. Bill moderately long, yellowish at base, greenish at tip; eyes, bare eyering, and legs coral red. Head and longish neck gray; throat paler; crown tinged brown; upperparts olive; breast and sides cinnamon rufous; rearparts including abdomen, rump, and tail black; primaries rufous chestnut (usually concealed at rest). Immatures are duller and the bill and legs are dusky.

Range :

To 2300m. Pacific coast south to Baud� Mountains; otherwise generally throughout South America. Central Mexico south to northern Argentina and Uruguay. Trinidad.

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