Aramides wolfi
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The brown wood rail (Aramides wolfi) is a species of bird in the subfamily Rallinae of the rail, crake, and coot family Rallidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. The brown wood rail is monotypic. The brown wood rail is 33 to 36 cm (13 to 14 in) long, one male was found to weigh 454 g (16.0 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults have a yellow-green bill, a red eye, and pink legs and feet. Their head is ashy gray with a yellow spot on the forehead and a pale throat. Their tail, flanks, and belly are black and the rest of their body is chestnut to warm brown. Immatures and juveniles have not been described.
The brown wood rail's specific epithet commemorates the German naturalist Theodor Wolf. The brown wood rail is patchily distributed in western Colombia and western Ecuador. A single 1977 report from Peru was retracted in 2011 and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society does not recognize it. It inhabits a variety of wet and dry landscapes including mangroves, freshwater marsh, swampy woodland, river bottoms, and mature and secondary forest. In elevation it ranges... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utría National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
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No species of the same family or order lives in Utría National Natural Park, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Wood-Rail sighting in Utría National Natural Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 68th most-seen of the 154 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Wood-Rail in Utría National Natural Park on a given day, against about 10% in July and September–November, the lowest months. April, June and December have too few records to rate.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown Wood-Rail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Utría National Natural Park, in our data
Utría National Natural Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Brown Wood-Rail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown Wood-Rail is recorded against all the birds logged in Utría National Natural Park (14 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
