Mangrove Rail

Taxonomy

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae

Genus

Rallus

eBird Code

manrai1

Subspecies (8)

• Rallus longirostris berryorum

  Pacific coast of eastern El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua; population in northwestern Costa Rica presumably also refers to this subspecies

• Rallus longirostris crassirostris

  coastal eastern Brazil (Amazon estuary to Santa Catarina)

• Rallus longirostris cypereti

  coastal southwestern Colombia to Ecuador and northwestern Peru (Tumbes)

• Rallus longirostris dillonripleyi

  coast of northeastern Venezuela (Sucre)

• Rallus longirostris longirostris

  coasts of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana

• Rallus longirostris margaritae

  Isla Margarita (off Venezuela)

• Rallus longirostris pelodramus

  Trinidad

• Rallus longirostris phelpsi

  coasts of northern Colombia (Guajira) and northern Venezuela (east to eastern Miranda)