Category
page 1Zapornia
Baillon's crake
species of bird
Little Crake
species of bird
Ruddy-breasted Crake
species of bird
Brown Crake
species of bird
Spotless Crake
species of bird
Black Crake
species of bird
Black-tailed Crake
species of bird
Laysan Rail
species of bird
Henderson Crake
species of bird
Band-bellied Crake
species of bird
Sakalava Rail
species of bird
Kosrae crake
species of bird
Hawaiian Rail
species of bird
Saint Helena Crake
species of bird
Miller's Rail
species of bird
Zapornia
Zapornia is a recently revalidated genus of birds in the rail family Rallidae; it was included in Porzana for much of the late 20th century. These smallish to tiny rails are found across most of the world, but are entirely absent from the Americas except as wind-blown stray birds (which are regularly encountered on the Atlantic coasts however). A number of species, and probably an even larger number of prehistorically extinct ones, are known only from small Pacific islands; several of these lost the ability to fly in the absence of terrestrial predators. They are somewhat less aquatic than Por