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Red-necked Crake
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Red-necked Crake
Rallina tricolor
The red-necked crake (Rallina tricolor) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.
From the article Red-necked crake on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The red-necked crake is a large crake (length 25 cm, wingspan 40 cm, weight 200 g). Its head, neck and breast are red-brown, with a paler version of that color on the throat. The upperparts are grey-brown, while the underparts are grey-brown with pale barring. The underwing is barred black and white, the bill green, and the legs grey-brown.
Range & habitat
Red-necked crakes live in the Moluccas, Lesser Sundas, New Guinea lowlands and adjacent islands, and north-eastern Australia. They are found in tropical rainforests and dense vegetation close to permanent wetlands.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The bird's diet consists of amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans and molluscs.
Wikipedia: “Diet”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 265.