Buff-banded Rail 红眼斑秧鸡 (B)

Order : Gruiformes 鹤形目

Family : Rallidae 秧鸡科
Genus : Hypotaenidia 秧鸡属

Binomial name : Hypotaenidia philippensis

Buff-banded Rail
红眼斑秧鸡

Size: 25~33cm

Habitat: Wide variety of wetlands including marshes, lakes, coastal lagoons, mangroves, saltmarshes and tidal mudflats.

Behaviour: Forages at all times of day and night, but mostly crepuscular. Can be confiding and ventures into open more often than many rails.

Status: Borneo Resident

lifer: Oct2023 . Putatan Paddyfields @ Sabah

Sound1: call . 20231030 . Putatan Paddyfields @ Sabah

Buff-banded Rail

lifer 20231029 5.55pm . Putatan Paddyfields @ Sabah

Buff-banded Rail (juv.)

20231030 . Putatan Paddyfields @ Sabah

Buff-banded Rail

20231030 . Putatan Paddyfields @ Sabah

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