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Red-throated wood rail

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4163588 ↗
Source-derived summary

The red-throated wood rail (Aramides gutturalis) is a disputed species of bird in the family Rallidae.

If it is not a misidentification, it was endemic to Peru and apparently became extinct due to habitat loss some time in the 20th century.

Following the 2006 SACC assessment which listed this species as dubious taxon BirdLife International removed the red-throated wood rail from the list of extinct species in 2009 as it might be either a badly prepared specimen of the grey-cowled wood rail A. cajanea or a subspecies of the brown wood rail A. wolfi.

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The public source identifies “Red-throated wood rail” as species of bird. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Red-throated, wood and rail.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Red-throated, wood and rail providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4163588. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Red-throated wood rail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.