Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, and Coots
Order: Gruiformes. Family: Rallidae
Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. Typically they inhabit dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, swamps, or rivers. In general they are shy and secretive birds, difficult to observe. Most species have strong legs, and have long toes which are well adapted to soft, uneven surfaces. They tend to have short, rounded wings and be weak fliers. There are 22 species which have been recorded in Venezuela.
- Speckled Rail Coturnicops notatus
- Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii
- Russet-crowned Crake Anurolimnas viridis
- Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius
- Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi (E)
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
- Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
- Plain-flanked Rail Rallus wetmorei (E)
- Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Aramides axillaris
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail Aramides cajanea
- Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Ash-throated Crake Porzana albicollis
- Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer
- Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops
- Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
- Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Caribbean Coot Fulica caribaea
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