Rails
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.
- Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
- Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber
- Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis
- Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Aramides axillaris
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail Aramides cajanea
- Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer
- Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Caribbean Coot Fulica caribaea (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Mexico
Famous quotes containing the word rails:
“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The train’s gone, the rails are cold.”
—Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)