Rallina tricolor
Its head, neck and breast are red-brown, with a paler version of that color on the throat. The Upperparts are grey-brown, while the underparts grey-brown with pale barring. The underwing is barred black and white, the bill green, and the legs grey-brown. he crake makes repetitive clicking calls and soft grunts.
Not Threatened.
Its head, neck and breast are red-brown, with a paler version of that color on the throat. The Upperparts are grey-brown, while the underparts grey-brown with pale barring. The underwing is barred black and white, the bill green, and the legs grey-brown. he crake makes repetitive clicking calls and soft grunts.
The Red-necked Crake is a large crake (length 25 cm, wingspan 40 cm, weight 200 g).
Taxonomy:
- Rallina tricolor G. R. Gray, 1858, Aru Islands. Up to six races have been recognized on basis of size and plumage differences, with tricolor of E Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea and outlying islands (including maxima of New Guinea, and robinsoni of Queensland), victa of Tanimbar Is, sometimes including laeta of St Matthias I, and convicta of New Ireland and New Hanover Is; however, individual variation considerable and geographical variation in size not well understood. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
- New Guinea and offshore islands, Bismarck Archipelago, and N & E Queensland (Australia); also spottily in S Moluccas and E Lesser Sundas, where status unclear.
They are found in tropical rainforests and dense vegetation close to permanent wetlands.
The bird's diet consists of amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans and molluscs.
The bird rests on or close to ground in dense vegetation. It lays clutched of 3-5 dull-white eggs, the incubation periods of which are around 20 days. The chicks covered in black down, precocial and nidifugous.
