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.
- Speckled Rail Coturnicops notatus
- Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius
- Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis (A)
- Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis (A)
- Red-and-white Crake Laterallus leucopyrrhus
- Austral Rail Rallus antarcticus
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail Aramides cajanea
- Giant Wood-Rail Aramides ypecaha
- Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail Aramides saracura
- Dot-winged Crake Porzana spiloptera
- Ash-throated Crake Porzana albicollis
- Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer
- Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops
- Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
- Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans
- Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Spot-flanked Gallinule Gallinula melanops
- White-winged Coot Fulica leucoptera
- Slate-colored Coot Fulica ardesiaca
- Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata
- Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons
- Giant Coot Fulica gigantea
- Horned Coot Fulica cornuta
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