Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Yellow-breasted Crake FAMILY - Rallidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Porzana flaviventer SYNONYMS - Rallus flaviventer - Boddaert, 1783 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 8 Resident, species present all year. 3 Insufficient information, uncertain 7 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 7 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 6 District Reference Belize 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 4 Hydrologic Association Reference Sibun River 4 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 General Distribution Comments 8* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. 5* Howell & Webb state Wood et al (1986) requires verification 3* Permanent resident, rare northern hardwood forests, mangroves and coastal zone. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 5 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 6 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 7 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 8 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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