Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Guillaume Delaitre, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Conrado Pável de Oliveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 3 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Patricio Cowper Coles, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 5 — Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Henrique Nogueira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Todd Boland, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Pablo H Capovilla, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-throated Crake (Mustelirallus albicollis), photo 10 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

What the Ash-throated Crake sounds like

Sonogram of the Ash-throated Crake: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Belén y Diego · Uncertain · Pancho Cue, General Alvear, Corrientes, Argentina · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The ash-throated crake is 21 to 24 cm (8.3 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 90 to 120 g (3.2 to 4.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have black upperparts with brown edges to the feathers, a pale gray throat, breast, and belly, and black and white bars on the flanks and undertail coverts. They have a short greenish bill and purplish brown legs. Subspecies M. a. typhoeca is smaller and paler than the nominate. Voice: The ash-throated crake's song is "a repeated, loud, fast series of vibrating notes, sounding like machine-gun 'd'd'd'd'd'-ou'." It also makes "a sharp 'tuk'" call. It mostly vocalizes in early morning and evening.

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When to see the Ash-throated Crake

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Ash-throated Crake

Regular range

The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Argentina Paraguay Colombia Bolivia Venezuela French Guiana Guyana Suriname Uruguay Ecuador Peru

About the Ash-throated Crake

The ash-throated crake is a species of bird in the subfamily Rallinae of the rail, crake, and coot family Rallidae. It is found in every mainland South American country except Chile.

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Easily confused with

Paint-billed CrakeMustelirallus erythropsThe paint-billed crake is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs about 40 to 70 g (1.4 to 2.5 oz). Colombian CrakeMustelirallus colombianusThe Colombian crake is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long.

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