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Plumbeous rail        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Plumbeous rails are common throughout South America.   They are unusual among rails in that they are somewhat social, and they are sometimes willing to emerge into the open instead of skulking deep in vegetation.   These were on a small wetland near Cusco, Peru.

  • Canon 7D, 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X extender, fill-in flash (2013)