Black-tailed crake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Zapornia |
| Species: | Z. bicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Zapornia bicolor (Walden, 1872)
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| Synonyms | |
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Amaurornis bicolor | |
The black-tailed crake (Zapornia bicolor) is a
Rallidae.[2]
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
Description
It is slate-gray with a chestnut brown back. Its eyes are red. Its slender legs are pinkish-red.
West Sikkim, India
.Its natural
montane forests
.
Diet
It is omnivorous,[3] eating a wide range of foods including invertebrates, insects (particularly parasites off of large animals), fish, frogs, seeds of aqautic plants, bird eggs,[4] worms, mollusks, grass, and berries.[5]
References
- . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ISSN 0974-7907.
- ^ "Black Crake | Franklin Park Zoo". zoonewengland.org. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ Faheem, Mahmood Syed. "Black-tailed crake". Retrieved 31 August 2023.
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