Yellow-breasted Crake (Laterallus flaviventer) | Details

Yellow-breasted Crake Laterallus flaviventer

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Taxonomy

Taxonomic note
Laterallus flaviventer (Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International 2020) was previously in the genus Hapalocrex (del Hoyo and Collar 2014). Stervander et al. (2019) found that Inaccessible Rail Atlantisia rogersi, Dot-winged Crake Porzana spiloptera and Yellow-breasted Crake Hapalocrex flaviventer nest within a clade of Laterallus crakes, with the first two grouped closely with Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis. It thus appears appropriate to move all three species to the genus Laterallus, and this option is adopted by BirdLife.

Previously, the taxon had been placed in the genus Porzana.

Taxonomic source(s)
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2020. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 5. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2021	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	22,600,000 km²	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	7000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2011
Population trend	unknown	-	-	-
Generation length	2.86 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number more than 7,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019, Wetlands International 2019).

Trend justification: There overall population trend is uncertain and difficult to assess. Partners in Flight (2019) report a small or non-significant decline between 1970 and 2014. Wetlands International (2019), however, suggest that the global population is increasing.

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident
Argentina	extant	native	yes
Belize	extant	native	yes
Bolivia	extant	native	yes
Brazil	extant	native	yes
Colombia	extant	native	yes
Costa Rica	extant	native	yes
Cuba	extant	native	yes
Dominican Republic	extant	native	yes
Ecuador	extant	native	yes
El Salvador	extant	native	yes
French Guiana	extant	native	yes
Guatemala	extant	native	yes
Guyana	extant	native	yes
Haiti	extant	native	yes
Jamaica	extant	native	yes
Mexico	extant	native	yes
Panama	extant	native	yes
Paraguay	extant	native	yes
Puerto Rico (to USA)	extant	native	yes
Suriname	extant	native	yes
Trinidad and Tobago	extant	native	yes
Uruguay	extant	native	yes
Venezuela	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	major	resident
Altitude	0 - 2500 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Yellow-breasted Crake Laterallus flaviventer. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/yellow-breasted-crake-laterallus-flaviventer on 20/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 20/12/2024.