Plumbeous Rail at Ribera Norte

The Plumbeous Rail (Pardirallus sanguinolentus) is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, and is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitat is swamps


That Plumbeous rail (Gallineta Comun - Rallus Sanguinolentus) was found in the laguna facing El Calafate. This version for commons has been cropped to fit better the animal.

The Plumbeous Rail is distributed from Peru across to south-east Brazil and south to Tierra del Fuego. It is found in marshes and ponds surrounded by dense vegetation but is relatively easy to see.

This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.