The white-throated crake (Laterallus albigularis) is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots.

L. a. cinereiceps is found from southeastern Honduras along the Caribbean slope of Nicaragua and Costa Rica and into Panama as far as Veraguas Province.

[5] The white-throated crake is generally sedentary but may relocate locally to higher ground during the rainy season.

[5] The white-throated crake usually forages in cover but will move into the open at dawn and dusk and during rainy weather.

Its diet includes insects, spiders, grass and sedge seeds, algae, and some small fruits.

The white-throated crake makes an "[a]brupt, explosive descending trill or churr"; its alarm call is "a sharp 'chip'" note.