Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 3,500 - 3,700 (2010).
Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris) [XC528389]
by Joserley Carlos from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil (song)
Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris) [XC800471]
by Daniel Lane from Place des Amandiers, Cayenne, French Guiana (call, song)
Subspecies
Rallus longirostris (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993, AOU 1998) is retained as a species contra Stotz et al. (1996) who split it into Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris) and Rallus obsoletus. Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) included Rallus tenuirostris, but Stotz et al. (1996) provisionally split Rallus tenuirostris from King Rail (Rallus elegans). However, this split is not recognised, following AOU (2000) who retain the tenuirostris group within King Rail (Rallus elegans).
Often considered conspecific with King Rail (Rallus elegans), provisionally treated as forming superspecies. Californian subspecies levipes, obsoletus and yumanensis sometimes placed in King Rail (Rallus elegans). Subspecies tenuirostris of King Rail (Rallus elegans) sometimes transferred to present species. Hybridization with King Rail (Rallus elegans) occurs occasionally in areas of sympatry.
The following 23 subspecies are recognised:
obsoletus Ridgway, 1874 - Central California, mainly in San Francisco Bay. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
levipes Bangs, 1899 - Coastal central California to northern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
yumanensis Dickey, 1923 - South-eastern California, southern Arizona and north-western Mexico. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
beldingi Ridgway, 1882 - Southern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
crepitans Gmelin, 1789 - Coastal Connecticut south to north-eastern North Carolina. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
waynei Brewster, 1899 - Coastal south-eastern North Carolina to eastern Florida. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
saturatus Ridgway, 1880 - Gulf coast from south-western Alabama to extreme north-eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
pallidus Nelson, 1905 - Coastal Yucatán (south-eastern Mexico). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
grossi Paynter, 1950 - Quintana Roo (south-eastern Mexico). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
belizensis Oberholser, 1937 - Ycacos Lagoon, Belize. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
scotti Sennett, 1888 - Coastal Florida.
insularum W. S. Brooks, 1920 - Florida Keys. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
coryi Maynard, 1887 - Bahamas. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
leucophaeus Todd, 1913 - I of Pines (Cuba). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
caribaeus Ridgway, 1880 - Cuba to Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles east to Antigua, also Guadeloupe. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
cypereti Taczanowski, 1878 - Coasts from extreme south-western Colombia (Nariño) through Ecuador to extreme north-western Peru (Tumbes).
margaritae Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1944 - Margarita I (Venezuela).
pelodramus Oberholser, 1937 - Trinidad.
longirostris Boddaert, 1783 - Coasts of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana.
crassirostris Lawrence, 1871 - Coastal Brazil from Amazon estuary to Santa Catarina.
dillonripleyi Phelps Jr & Aveledo, 1987 - North-eastern Venezuela.
berryorum Maley et al., 2016 - Pacific coast of eastern El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua; population in north-western Costa Rica presumably also refers to this subspecies.
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