The Zapata rail (Mustelirallus cerverai) is a medium-sized, dark-coloured rail. It has brown upperparts, greyish-blue underparts, a red-based yellow bill, white undertail coverts, and red eyes and legs. Its short wings render it almost flightless. It is endemic to the wetlands of the Zapata Peninsula in southern Cuba, where its only known nest was found in sawgrass tussocks. Little is known of its diet or reproductive behaviour, and its described calls may belong to a different species.
The species was discovered by Spanish zoologist Fermín Zanón Cervera in March 1927 in the Zapata Swamp near Santo Tomás, in the southern Matanzas Province of Cuba. The swamp holds one other bird found nowhere else, the Zapata wren, and also gives its name to the Zapata sparrow. Due to ongoing habitat loss in its limited range, its small population size, and predation by introduced mammals and catfish, the Zapata rail is evaluated as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Tourism and climate change may pose threats in the future.
^BirdLife International (2020). "Cyanolimnas cerverai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22692737A178679046. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22692737A178679046.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
The Zapatarail (Mustelirallus cerverai) is a medium-sized, dark-coloured rail. It has brown upperparts, greyish-blue underparts, a red-based yellow bill...
endemics to Cuba; for birds, it includes the Zapata wren, Zapatarail, and the Zapata sparrow. The Zapata Swamp is also a particular habitat of the bee...
powers of flight to various extents. These include the Zapatarail of Cuba, the Okinawa rail of Japan, and the Laysan duck of Hawaii. All of these birds...
Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guianas, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. Mustelirallus cerverai Zapatarail Endemic to the Zapata Peninsula in Cuba....
forests. The Zapata wren or ferminia (Fermina cerverai) and the Zapatarail (Cyanolimnas cerverai) are endemic to the Zapata Swamp. The Zapata sparrow (Torreornis...
crake Genus Cyanolimnas – Zapatarail Genus Diaphorapteryx - Hawkins's rail Genus Dryolimnas Genus Eulabeornis – chestnut rail Genus Fulica - coots Genus...
Ferminia, a genus with only one species, the Zapata wren Cyanolimnas, with one species, the Zapatarail Margarobyas, with one species, the bare-legged...
Mexico, it was less so in the areas controlled by Zapata. When men and horses were transported by rail, the soldiers rode on the tops of boxcars. Railway...
fliers. Order: Gruiformes Family: Aramidae The limpkin resembles a large rail. It has drab-brown plumage and a grayer head and neck. Order: Gruiformes Family:...
Paraortygometra "R." sumiderensis apparently refers to prehistoric remains of the Zapatarail (Cyanolimnas cerverai). "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for...
Tunnel Las Palmas Tunnel Las Raíces Tunnel Lo Prado Tunnel Pedro Galleguillos Tunnel Puclaro Tunnel Recto Tunnel Zapata Tunnel List of tunnels by location...
Cuernavaca is the Porfirio Diaz bridge. The Ruta de Zapata (Zapata Route) covers the areas General Emiliano Zapata operated throughout the state of Morelos during...
on March 6, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2010. Sandoval, Polo. "Showdown in Zapata County". KRGV-TV. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved...
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Zapata is a station on Line 3 and Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro, in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City. The station logo depicts Emiliano Zapata...
Emiliano Zapata – South of the Cuale (called Zona Romántica or "Old Town" in tourist brochures). Cols. Caloso and Canoas – east of Col. Emiliano Zapata and...
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