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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Rallus
- Mass
- 145
- Image
- African Rail, Rallus caerulescens at Marievale Nature Reserve (36874833142).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Rallus caerulescens
- Commons category
- Rallus caerulescens
- Commons gallery
- Rallus caerulescens
- litter size
- 3.5
- egg incubation period
- 20
- taxon common name
- frango-de-água-africano
- short name
- R. caerulescens
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The African rail (Rallus caerulescens), sometimes also Kaffir rail, is a small wetland bird of the rail family that is found in eastern and southern Africa.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “African Rail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.