requesting a weird rail roundup: White-Throated Rail, Weka, Spotted Rail, South Island Takahe?
Lets head into the marsh, I have a few friends for you...
Black Crake (Zapornia flavirostra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Limpopo, South Africa
photograph by Thinus Van Staden
Black Crake (Zapornia flavirostra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Limpopo, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa
photograph by Mike Haworth
Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), mother with chick, family Rallidae, Western Australia
photograph by Matt Laughton
Andaman Crake (Rallina canningi), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, endemic to the Andman Islands of India
photograph by Dhanapal Arumugam
White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus), grabs a muddy mollusk, family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India
photograph by Savithri Singh
Weka aka Woodhen (Gallirallus australis), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, New Zealand
photograph by JJ Harrison




















