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Little Wood Rail

Aramides mangle

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestMedium · 183 g
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 1
Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 2
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 3
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 4
Photo: Túllio · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 5
Photo: Túllio · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 6
Photo: Laura Gaudette · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 7
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 8
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 9
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0
Little Wood Rail (Aramides mangle), photo 10
Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The little wood rail is 27 to 29 cm (11 to 11 in) long; one female weighed 164 g (5.8 oz). It is the smallest member of genus Aramides. The sexes are alike. They have a stout greenish bill with red at the base of the maxilla and red legs and feet. Adults have a gray head, neck, and upper back, and the rest of the back and their wings are olive brown to greenish olive. Their rump, tail, and undertail coverts are black. Their throat is white and their breast and belly rufous. Voice: The little wood rail's apparent song is a "enetrating, loud 'pik-pik-pik' or 'pyok-pyok-pyok...'". Members of a pair often reply to each other at slightly different pitches.

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When to see the Little Wood Rail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Little Wood Rail

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil French Guiana

About the Little Wood Rail

The little wood rail is a species of bird in the subfamily Rallinae of the rail, crake, and coot family Rallidae. It is endemic to Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Brown Wood Rail (Aramides wolfi) Brown Wood RailAramides wolfiThe brown wood rail is 33 to 36 cm (13 to 14 in) long. Red-winged Wood RailAramides calopterusThe red-winged wood rail is 31 to 35 cm (12 to 14 in) long. Rufous-necked Wood Rail (Aramides axillaris) Rufous-necked Wood RailAramides axillarisThe rufous-necked wood rail is 29 to 33 cm (11 to 13 in) long and weighs about 300 to 325 g (11 to 11 oz).

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