Key Identification Features
- This species, Rallus elegans Audubon, 1834, has several distinct physical features.
- They are noisy birds in this season, with a distinctive, repetitive, whiplash-like call that sounds like hwuit, hwuit.
- It is the smallest species in its genus and has distinctly different plumage from other members of the genus.
- Juveniles of the two subspecies can be distinguished by their undertail-coverts: P.
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