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Illustration of a Grey-cowled Wood Rail (Aramides cajaneus) egg, 51.8 × 36 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Aramides cajaneus

  • 51.8 × 36 mm
  • Clutch: 3–5 eggs
Breeds in Central America (2 countries), Trinidad and Tobago and South America (12 countries)
show all 15Central America: Costa Rica, Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Whitish to pale cream or buff, strongly ovate, blotched and spotted with bright brown/chestnut, cinnamon and pale lilac, densest at the thick end.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 6 eggs: Skutch, A. F. 1994. The Gray-necked Wood-Rail: habits, food, nesting, and voice. Auk 111: 200–204., p. 201.
Agrees with: Wetmore, A. 1965. The Birds of the Republic of Panamá. Part 1. Tinamidae to Rynchopidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(1)., p. 344.
Description
Skutch, A. F. 1994. The Gray-necked Wood-Rail: habits, food, nesting, and voice. Auk 111: 200–204., p. 201.
Agrees with: Wetmore, A. 1965. The Birds of the Republic of Panamá. Part 1. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(1) (incl. Belcher & Smooker 1935, Ibis)., p. 344.
Shape
Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).

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