Bolivia (B), Brazil (B), Colombia (B), Costa Rica (B), French Guiana (B), Guyana (B), Paraguay (B), Peru (B), Suriname (B), Venezuela (B).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
Habitat destruction through burning and conversion to agriculture, predation by Maned Wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus are the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii) [XC476513]
by from Parque Estadual do Juquery, Franco da Rocha, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (call)
Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii) [XC345048]
by Thiago Augusto Mendes Pinheiro from ribeir\u00e3o dos Porcos, Pedro Afonso, Tocantins, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
schomburgkii (Schomburgk, 1848) - Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas. Also south-eastern Peru and Bolivia (racial affinities not clear).
chapmani (Naumburg, 1930) - Central to south-eastern Brazil.