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Blue-faced Rail

Gymnocrex rosenbergii

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesForestLarge · 300 g
Blue-faced Rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii), photo 1
Photo: Bruno Geisler · Public domain
Blue-faced Rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii), photo 2
Photo: Andrey Mikhaylov · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The blue-faced rail is a 30 cm, medium-sized, secretive, forest rail. It has a conspicuous patch of bare cobalt-blue skin around the eye that gives the bird its distinctive name. The blue-faced rail makes a snoring sound apparently similar to that of the snoring rail, and it also gives off a quiet clucking sound in alarm.

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When to see the Blue-faced Rail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-faced Rail

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Indonesia

About the Blue-faced Rail

The blue-faced rail also bald-faced rail or Schlegel's rail, is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Easily confused with

Bare-eyed RailGymnocrex plumbeiventrisThe bare-eyed rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. Talaud RailGymnocrex talaudensisThe Talaud rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

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