The Rallidae – Rails+ or Rallidae – Rails, Crakes & Coots is a large family of small to medium sized species of Type – marshfowl that is defined below and belong to the Order Gruiformes, more on the Rallidae Family can be found here.
Type - marshfowl - is defined below...
Marshfowl are species that are midway between waterbirds with fully webbed feet and wadingbirds which have typical straight toes with no extra aids for swimming. Marshfowl have lobed or partially webbed feet or very long toes to help spread their weight in marshy ground or floating vegetation.
Rallidae - Rails+ contains the following categories...
Coots
Crakes
Gallinules
Moorhens
Rails
Rails+
Swamphens
Watercocks
Waterhens
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