Cranes, Rails, and Allies
Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like".
7 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 169 known species
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots
familyRallidae
Cranes
familyGruidae
Limpkins
familyAramidae
Finfoots
familyHeliornithidae
Trumpeters
familyPsophiidae
Flufftails and Forest Rails
familySarothruridae
Adzebills
familyAptornithidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4.