Nombre en español: Chilacoa Parda

Nombre en ingles: Brown Wood-Rail

Nombre científico: Aramides wolfi

Familia: Rallidae

Foto: Nick Athanas

Canto: Andrew Spencer

La chilacoa café, gallito de agua pardo o cotara morena (Aramides wolfi) es una especie de ave de la familia Rallidae, que se encuentra en Colombia, Ecuador y posiblemente en Perú.

Hábitat

Se ha registrado con mayor frecuencia en los manglares, pero también se ha encontrado en el bosque, bosque secundario, bordes de bosques fluviales, pantanos y bosques ribereños pantanosos, preferentemente a menos de 100 m de altitud, pero hasta los 1.500 msnm. Está amenazada por pérdida de hábitat; se calcula que perdió el 76% de su hábitat, el 30% en 10 años.

Descripción

Mide 33 a 36 cm de longitud. La mayoría del plumaje es de color castaño rojizo rufo; cabeza gris ceniza, con escudo frontal amarillo, pico verde, iris rojo y la garganta blancuzca; el cuello, pecho y parte superior del dorso son de color rufo canela; el vientre de color castaño oliváceo; crísum y grupa negros. Las patas son rojas.

Alimentación

Se alimenta de cangrejos pequeños, caracoles, insectos y semillas.

Brown wood rail

The brown wood rail (Aramides wolfi) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and possibly Peru.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The binomial of this bird commemorates the German naturalist Theodor Wolf.

The Brown Wood-Rail is endemic to the Pacific coast of northwest South America, where it occurs from western Colombia south to southwestern Ecuador. It is found in forested areas and second growth, often along rivers, as well as in mangroves and swampy woodlands, up to approximately 900 m. The Brown Wood-Rail is a relatively large member of its genus. It has a gray head and pale throat, but most of the rest of the plumage is chestnut to warm brown, except for the black tibial feathering and rectrices. The lack of any gray on the foreneck should immediately separate it from any other wood-rail. The Brown Wood-Rail is a very poorly known species, which is reportedly rare over much of its range, with just one record from Peru, and at least in Ecuador it has apparently declined significantly in response to extensive habitat modification throughout the western lowlands in recent decades.