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White-throated Crake (Laterallus albigularis)

White-throated Crake
Photo: Biodiversity Heritage Library via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the White-throated Crake

The white-throated crake (Laterallus albigularis) is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. The white-throated crake was for a time treated as a subspecies of the rufous-sided crake (L. melanophaius). As a species in its own right, it has three subspecies, the nominate L. a. albigularis, L. a. cinereiceps, and L. a. cerdaleus.

Source: White-throated crake on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the White-throated Crake. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (1:11) via xeno-canto.org/926083, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama · xeno-canto lists 110 recordings for this species in total.

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