Rails, Gallinules and Coots (Rallidae)
Spot-flanked Gallinule (Gallinula melanops) - HBW 3, p. 204
French: Gallinule à face noire
German: Maskenpfuhlhuhn
Spanish: Gallineta Pintada
Other common names: Little Waterhen
Taxonomy: Rallus melanops Vieillot, 1819, Paraguay.
Sometimes placed in Porphyriops. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- bogotensis (Chapman, 1914) - E Andes of Colombia.
- melanops (Vieillot, 1819) - E Bolivia and Paraguay, E & S Brazil to extreme NE Argentina and Uruguay.
- crassirostris (J. E. Gray, 1829) - Chile and Argentina, except extreme S.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird swimming on a lake Locality Laguna de Torca, Chile (ssp crassirostris)
Josep del Hoyo 12 October 2003 8 years ago 23 sec 3.9 -
Just before the reserve. Locality Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, Brazil
Yoel Jimenez 5 December 2006 2 years ago 22 sec 2.3
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Spot-flanked Gallinule (Gallinula melanops)
Locality Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Silvia Vitale 31 July 2010 1 year ago 4.2 -
Adult on floating vegetation
Locality San Miguel del Monte (Monte), Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp crassirostris)
Hernán Tolosa 13 January 2011 1 year ago 4.2 -
Adult foraging in a swampy pond.
Locality Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Santiago Meligeni Lozano 16 July 2010 1 year ago 4 -
Adult
Locality Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Silvia Vitale 12 December 2009 2 years ago 4 -
This juvenile was feeding alongside a Plumbeous Rail.
Locality Laguna El Peral, Chile
Miriam Bauman 7 February 2012 12 weeks ago 3.4 -
A bird feeding.
Locality Estero Maitencillo, Valparaiso Region, Chile
Patricio Mackenzie 19 March 2011 1 year ago 3.2
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