The grey-cowled wood rail or grey-necked wood rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, the rails. It lives primarily in the forests, mangroves, and swamps of Central and South America. The species is considered to be least-concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
About Grey-necked wood rail in brief
The grey-cowled wood rail or grey-necked wood rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, the rails. It lives primarily in the forests, mangroves, and swamps of Central and South America. This bird, large for a wood rail, has both a grey head and neck. The upperparts are olive-green to dark brown. The chest and flanks are a rufous colour, with the belly, rump, and tail being black. The legs are coral-red, the bill is a bright greenish-yellow, and the eyes are red. The subspecies avicenniae can be differentiated by its smaller size, lack of a brown patch at the back of the neck, and its lower back being toned slightly olive. A monogamous bird, pairs can be found together throughout the year. This rail feeds on a wide range of foods, from molluscs to seeds. It is also known to feed on the feces of giant otters. The species is considered to be least-concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In some places, it is occasionally hunted and kept for food.
The number of subspecies is contentious, some authorities recognize up to nine, while others recognize only two. The grey- cowled woodrail usually measures 33–40 centimetres long and weighs 320 grams, particularly large, particularly large for a woodrail. It was originally described as Fulica Cajanea by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, in his 1776 Vollständiges Natursystem. The specific epithet, cajaneus, is in reference to the capital city of French Guiana, Guiana. The specific epithet is also the Persian philosopher honours the Avicenna Avicenna honours the Persian philosopher Honours of the Persian Philosopher and is used to refer to the subspecies A. c. avicenn iae and A. c. av cajane a. The two subspecies were classified as subspecies of a single species by James L. Peters in the 1934 edition of his Check-list of Birds of the World, before being separated as species in 2015.
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