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Chestnut-headed Crake (Rufirallus castaneiceps)

Chestnut-headed Crake
Photo: Joseph Smit via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain — free for commercial reuse.

About the Chestnut-headed Crake

The chestnut-headed crake (Anurolimnas castaneiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is the only species placed in the genus Anurolimnas. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Source: Chestnut-headed crake on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Chestnut-headed 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.

Call (1:21) via xeno-canto.org/250485, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Song (0:34) via xeno-canto.org/251278, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru · xeno-canto lists 75 recordings for this species in total.

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