Endangered
Plain-flanked Rail
Rallus wetmorei
Plain-flanked Rail is a large rail with two distinct color morphs.
Appearance
The plain-flanked rail is a large rail with two distinct color morphs. The pale morph being olive-brown in color with dark streaks, while the dark morph is brown to sooty. It is a large rail with two distinct color morphs.
Range and habitat
It primarily inhabits coastal mangroves and has also been found in emergent vegetation of brackish and saltwater lagoons and marshes.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It forages at low levels in mangrove forests, or on edges near mudflats. The diet likely consists of aquatic invertebrates, and fiddler crabs are documented prey.
The plain-flanked rail's breeding season may range from February to May, based on breeding and nesting behaviors.
In crisis
Plain-flanked Rail is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Plain-flanked Rail, Wikidata item Q1268685. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
