SLATY-BREASTED RAIL

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(*  919)               SLATY-BREASTED RAIL               Gallirallus striatus

MALAYSIA             63

Found in inland freshwater swamps, flooded rice fields, roadbeds and grasslands. 25 cm. Resident at low elevations in Peninsular Malaysia.

SLATY-BREASTED RAIL

Subspecies gularis photographed in Singapore (Coney Island) November 2016

919                  SLATY-BREASTED RAIL               Gallirallus striatus

SINGAPORE (Coney Island)              (68)

Found in secondary scrub, marshes, wet grassland, and occasionally well-wooded parkland. 25 cm. Distribution: S and NE India, much of S China, mainland Southeast Asia and Thai-Malay Peninsula, east to Philippines and Sulawesi.