Birds > Rails & Coots
The Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata), also known as the Crested Coot, is an iconic aquatic rail native to the freshwater wetlands of Africa and southwestern Europe. Closely resembling the common coot with its soot-black body and stark white facial shield, it is...
Birds > Rails & Coots
The African Crake (Crex egregia) is a handsome, medium-sized grassland rail resident throughout the savannas and damp plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The closest living relative of the Eurasian Corncrake, it is characterized by its bold black-and-white zebra-barred...
Birds > Rails & Coots
The Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) is a small, exquisitely patterned wetland bird of the rail family Rallidae. Inhabiting the densest, most inaccessible freshwater fens and flooded sedge marshes across Eurasia, it is globally celebrated for its enchanting, nocturnal...
Birds > Rails & Coots
The Corncrake (Crex crex), also known as the Landrail, is an iconic, secretive grassland bird of the rail family Rallidae. Famed for the loud, rhythmic, mechanical rasping ‘crex-crex’ song broadcast by males throughout summer nights, it has been...
Birds > Gruiformes
The Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), widely known throughout Europe simply as the coot, is a tough, gregarious, and pugnacious aquatic bird belonging to the rail family Rallidae. Instantly recognizable by its sooty-black plumage and the brilliant, chalk-white fleshy...
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