Rails, Crakes & Coots

Barred Rail

Hypotaenidia torquata

The Barred Rail (Hypotaenidia torquata) is a 280 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Rails, Crakes & Coots

Order

Gruiformes

Weight

280 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Omnivore

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

4

Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist