Candy: Wild Red-foot habitat includes a lot of places that are not rainforest. Even in Venezuela, they are generally found at least as often on the grassy savannahs as in the deep forest. Southern Red-foots and Red-foots from Eastern Brazil live in places that are generally a lot drier and have more variable temperatures than the rain forest does (even in these areas, they are generally found in the greener areas).
They seem perfectly willing to exploit more open areas, from natural openings to natural savannahs, to places opened up by agriculture. This sort of feeds into the debate of what sort of habitat they prefer- rainforest or edge. When you look at range maps, you see that the Red-foot's habitat sort of 'circles' the Yellow-foot habitat- the deeper we go into the rainforest, the more Yellow-foots you seem to find.
They seem perfectly willing to exploit more open areas, from natural openings to natural savannahs, to places opened up by agriculture. This sort of feeds into the debate of what sort of habitat they prefer- rainforest or edge. When you look at range maps, you see that the Red-foot's habitat sort of 'circles' the Yellow-foot habitat- the deeper we go into the rainforest, the more Yellow-foots you seem to find.