a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud

rails of New Zealand

corncrakes

spotted crakes

inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud

rails of New Zealand

corncrakes

spotted crakes