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The rufous-faced crake is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs about 52 g (1.8 oz). The sexes are alike. They have a blue-gray bill, legs, and feet. They have a rufous face, hindneck, and upper back; a white throat and belly; and a buffy ochraceous foreneck and breast. Their upperwing coverts, secondaries, and scapulars have black and white bars as do their flanks. Their tail and undertail coverts are black. The rufous-faced crake's song is "a drawn-out, slightly descending trill". It also makes "oft call notes "piú piú'".
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About the Rufous-faced Crake
The rufous-faced crake is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. This species was formerly placed in the genus Laterallus.
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Easily confused with
Ocellated CrakeRufirallus schomburgkiiThe ocellated crake is generally around 165mm long, and is sexually dimorphic in size, with males weighing roughly 40 grams and females 24 grams.
Black-banded CrakeRufirallus fasciatusThe black-banded crake is 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long.
Red-and-white CrakeRufirallus leucopyrrhusThe red-and-white crake is 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 34 to 52 g (1.2 to 1.8 oz) with an average of about 45 g (1.6 oz)).
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