Flufftails and Forest Rails
Sarothruridae
Sarothruridae is a family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds found in Madagascar and sub-Saharan Africa. The species in this family were once considered to sit with the larger rail family Rallidae. The family contains 2 genera.
3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 15 known species
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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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Every page naming Sarothruridae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 980121.