Red-throated Wood-rail
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The Red-throated Wood Rail (Aramides gutturalis) is a disputed species of bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Rallidae
Rallidae
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...

 family.
If it is not a misidentification, it was endemic to Peru
Peru
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 and apparently became extinct due to habitat loss some time in the 20th century.

Following the 2006 SACC assessment which listed this species as dubious taxon BirdLife International
BirdLife International
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 removed the Red-throated Wood ail from the list of extinct species in 2009 as it might be either a badly prepared specimen of the Grey-necked Wood Rail A. cajanea or a subspecies of the Brown Wood Rail A. wolfi.
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