Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernOmnivore

WetlandPlatform nestMedium · 116 g

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Renjith Jacob Mathews, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 5 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) renjus box, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slaty-breasted Rail (Lewinia striata), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Slaty-breasted Rail

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

Where to see the Slaty-breasted Rail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 17 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Taiwan Singapore Thailand Malaysia China Hong Kong SAR China Philippines Indonesia Sri Lanka Cambodia Vietnam Bangladesh Myanmar (Burma) Bhutan Nepal Brunei

Recorded as a rare visitor in Laos.

About the Slaty-breasted Rail

The slaty-breasted rail is a rail species native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Lewin's RailLewinia pectoralisLewin's rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

Auckland RailLewinia muelleriThe Auckland rail is a small rail with chestnut back plumage and a grey breast.

Brown-banded RailLewinia mirificaThe brown-banded rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

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