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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Cranes, Rails, and Allies

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Cranes, Rails, and Allies

Gruiformes

Includes
16 native 2 introduced 15 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Rails, Gallinules, and Coots 12 native
  • Cranes 3 native
  • Limpkins 1 native
  • Trumpeters
  • Finfoots

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native cranes, rails, and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • American Coot Fulica americana 156,255 observations
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis 84,426 observations
  • Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata 78,047 observations
  • Common Crane Grus grus 41,273 observations
  • Limpkin Aramus guarauna 29,711 observations
  • Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica 21,205 observations
  • Sora Porzana carolina 15,570 observations
  • Virginia Rail Rallus limicola 8,621 observations
  • Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans 6,056 observations
  • Whooping Crane Grus americana 4,899 observations
  • Ridgway's Rail Rallus obsoletus 3,116 observations
  • Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai 2,040 observations
  • King Rail Rallus elegans 1,542 observations
  • Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus 531 observations
  • Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis 360 observations
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