Rails, Crakes & Coots
Mangrove Rail
Rallus longirostris
The Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris) is a 259 g coastal bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Weight
- 259 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 20
Recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, GP, Costa Rica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guyana, El Salvador, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, GF, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, VI.
Where to see it: Caroni Swamp (Trinidad and Tobago); Mahaica River · Baiabu (Guyana); Georgetown Botanical Gardens (Guyana); Asa Wright Nature Center (Trinidad and Tobago).
Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist