Rails, Crakes & Coots

Rallidae · 144 species

Rails, Crakes & Coots (Rallidae) is a family of 144 bird species in the order Gruiformes. They live mostly in wetland, forest, grassland habitats. The smallest is the Yellow-breasted Crake and the largest the South Island Takahe.

African Crake Crex egregia
African Rail Rallus caerulescens
Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
American Coot Fulica americana
Andaman Crake Rallina canningi
Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca
Ash-throated Crake Porzana albicollis
Auckland Rail Lewinia muelleri
Austral Rail Rallus antarcticus
Australian Crake Porzana fluminea
Aztec Rail Rallus tenuirostris
Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris
Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
Band-bellied Crake Zapornia paykullii
Bare-eyed Rail Gymnocrex plumbeiventris
Barred Rail Hypotaenidia torquata
Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis
Black-banded Crake Porzana fasciata
Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor
Black-tailed Nativehen Tribonyx ventralis
Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans
Blue-faced Rail Gymnocrex rosenbergii
Bogota Rail Rallus semiplumbeus
Bougainville Rail Hypotaenidia tertia
Brown Crake Zapornia akool
Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi
Brown-banded Rail Lewinia mirifica
Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus
Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis
Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
Calayan Rail Gallirallus calayanensis
Chestnut Forest Rail Rallicula rubra
Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris
Chestnut-headed Crake Rufirallus castaneiceps
Chestnut-headed Flufftail Sarothrura lugens
Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans
Colombian Crake Neocrex colombiana
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
Corn Crake Crex crex
Dot-winged Crake Laterallus spilopterus
Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
Forbes's Forest Rail Rallicula forbesi
Galapagos Crake Laterallus spilonota
Giant Coot Fulica gigantea
Giant Wood Rail Aramides ypecaha
Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri
Gray-headed Swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus
Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus
Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus
Guam Rail Hypotaenidia owstoni
Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai
Henderson Crake Zapornia atra
Horned Coot Fulica cornuta
Inaccessible Island Rail Laterallus rogersi
Invisible Rail Habroptila wallacii
Isabelline Bush-hen Amaurornis isabellina
Junin Crake Laterallus tuerosi
King Rail Rallus elegans
Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis
Little Crake Zapornia parva
Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle
Lord Howe Woodhen Hypotaenidia sylvestris
Madagascar Flufftail Sarothrura insularis
Madagascar Forest Rail Mentocrex kioloides
Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis
Makira Woodhen Pareudiastes silvestris
Mangrove Rail Rallus longirostris
Mayr's Forest Rail Rallicula mayri
New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta
Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii
Okinawa Rail Hypotaenidia okinawae
Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops
Pale-vented Bush-hen Amaurornis moluccana
Pink-legged Rail Hypotaenidia insignis
Plain Bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea
Plain-flanked Rail Rallus wetmorei
Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus
Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinicus
Red-and-white Crake Laterallus leucopyrrhus
Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons
Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata
Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata
Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor
Red-winged Wood Rail Aramides calopterus
Ridgway's Rail Rallus obsoletus
Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii
Roviana Rail Hypotaenidia rovianae
Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber
Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca
Rufous-faced Crake Laterallus xenopterus
Rufous-necked Wood Rail Aramides axillaris
Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius
Russet-crowned Crake Rufirallus viridis
Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris
Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi
Sakalava Rail Zapornia olivieri
Samoan Woodhen Pareudiastes pacificus
Santa Isabel Rail Hypotaenidia immaculata
Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata
Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura
Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides
Slender-billed Flufftail Sarothrura watersi
Snoring Rail Aramidopsis plateni
Sora Porzana carolina
South Island Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri
Speckled Rail Coturnicops notatus
Spot-flanked Gallinule Porphyriops melanops
Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis
Spotted Crake Porzana porzana
Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
Streaky-breasted Flufftail Sarothrura boehmi
Striped Crake Amaurornis marginalis
Striped Flufftail Sarothrura affinis
Swinhoe's Rail Coturnicops exquisitus
Talaud Bush-hen Amaurornis magnirostris
Talaud Rail Gymnocrex talaudensis
Tasmanian Nativehen Tribonyx mortierii
Tsingy Forest Rail Mentocrex beankaensis
Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
Water Rail Rallus aquaticus
Watercock Gallicrex cinerea
Weka Gallirallus australis
Western Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
White-browed Crake Amaurornis cinerea
White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
White-striped Forest Rail Rallicula leucospila
White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
White-throated Rail Dryolimnas cuvieri
White-winged Coot Fulica leucoptera
White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi
Woodford's Rail Hypotaenidia woodfordi
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
Yellow-breasted Crake Laterallus flaviventer
Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai