Just for fun - how many rails have you seen? (1 Viewer)

[Creamcolouredcourser]

I've seen three. Moorhen,Coot and Water Rail. Hardly any!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Matt (and others), we (three birding companions and I) were within two feet of a Black Rail at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, near Great Bend, Kansas. I probably almost stepped on it! It was calling from a wet ditch grown up in rather high vegetation. It then moved away from us and continued calling. We never got even a glimpse! It was great to hear its very distinctive call though.

I've had one that wouldn't show itself at Quivira, too. The other black rail also heard only was here in PA.

1 White-spotted Flufftail
2 Yellow Rail
3 Black Rail (HO)
4 Clapper Rail
5 King Rail
6 Virginia Rail
7 Water Rail
8 Grey-necked Wood-Rail
9 Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail
10 White-breasted Waterhen
11 Black Crake
12 Sora
13 Ash-throated Crake
14 Blackish Rail
15 Purple Swamphen
16 Allen's Gallinule
17 Purple Gallinule
18 Common Moorhen
19 Dusky Moorhen
20 Lesser Moorhen
21 Red-knobbed Coot
22 Common Coot
23 American Coot
24 Caribbean Coot
25 White-winged Coot
26 Slate-colored Coot

Also heard corn crake a couple times, but couldn't find the little bugger.

 

[Paul Woolnough]

I've had one that wouldn't show itself at Quivira, too. The other black rail also heard only was here in PA.

1 White-spotted Flufftail
2 Yellow Rail
3 Black Rail (HO)
4 Clapper Rail
5 King Rail
6 Virginia Rail
7 Water Rail
8 Grey-necked Wood-Rail
9 Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail
10 White-breasted Waterhen
11 Black Crake
12 Sora
13 Ash-throated Crake
14 Blackish Rail
15 Purple Swamphen
16 Allen's Gallinule
17 Purple Gallinule
18 Common Moorhen
19 Dusky Moorhen
20 Lesser Moorhen
21 Red-knobbed Coot
22 Common Coot
23 American Coot
24 Caribbean Coot
25 White-winged Coot
26 Slate-colored Coot

Also heard corn crake a couple times, but couldn't find the little bugger.

Cannot compete with your total from across the pond Jeff.

Have corncrake over most people in my home county of Norfolk, England.

Had to travel for sora, baillon's and little crakes. The last two both in Kent where I cannot recall seeing water rail on my occasional visits: the traffic around London and down there being far worse than nearer home.

 

[Halcon]

With todays Spotted crake 5:

1-Water Rail
2-Spotted Crake
3-Common Moorhen
4-Purple Swamphen
5-Coot

A great list :-O

 

[antshrike69]

71 to date, plus a few heard onlys (that pesky Uniform Crake...) lol.

 

[Adin 92]

5:

Purple Gallinule (being the first record of Malta)
Little Crake
Water Rail
Moorhen
Coot

 

[Mysticete]

updated list:

US:
American Coot
Common Gallinule
Clapper Rail (both California + Gulf coast forms)
Virginia Rail
Sora

Australia:
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot (Australian form)
Australian Crake
Spotless Crake
Purple Swamphen

England:
Common Moorhen
Eurasian Coot (uh...Eurasian form)

South Africa:
Red-knobbed Coot

Hopefully add at Purple Gallinule in November, and if lucky perhaps King Rail.

 

[LabradorDuck]

Added a few more down in Louisiana:

American Coot
Eurasian Coot
(Eurasian) Moorhen
Common Gallinule/ (American) Moorhen
Sora
Virginia Rail
Clapper Rail
King Rail

Missed out on Purple Gallinule. Someday...

 

[chris butterworth]

Check out below Edward :t: :-O :-O
1 White-spotted Flufftail
2 Buff-spotted Flufftail
3 Red-chested Flufftail
4 Nkulengu Rail
5 Swinhoe's Rail
6 Yelow Rail
( You have to WORK to get tthe last 2! )
7 Speckled Rail
8 Red-necked Crake
9 Red-legged Crake
10 Slaty-legged Rail
11 Russet-crowned Crake
12 Rusty-flanked Crake ( reasonably "easy" in Yacambu N.P., Venezuela )
13 White-throated Crake
14 Grey-breasted Crake
15 Black Rail
16 Weka
17 Okinawa Rail ( surprisingly easy, they come out onto lawns first thing in the morning )
18 Barred Rail
19 Buff-banded Rail ( s.l. )
20 Slaty-breasted Rail
21 Clapper Rail
22 King Rail
23 Virginia Rail
24 Water Rail
25 African Rail
26 Lewin's Rail
27 African Crake
28 Corn Crake
29 Rouget's Rail
30 Snoring Rail
31 Inaccessible Rail
32 Rufous-necked Wood Rail
33 Grey-necked Wood Rail
34 Uniform Crake
35 Bare-eyed Rail
36 Brown Crake
37 Isabelline Bush-hen
38 Rufous-tailed Bush-hen
39 White-breasted Waterhen
40 Black Crake
41 Little Crake
42 Baillon's Crake ( on 4 continents! )
43 Spotted Crake
44 Australian Crake
45 Sora ( Crake )
46 Ruddy-breasted Crake
47 Band-bellied Crake
48 Spotless Crake
49 Yellow-breasted Crake
50 White-browed Crake
51 Striped Crake
52 Spotted Rail
54 Watercock
54 Purple Swamp-hen ( s.l. )
55 Takahe ( easy on Tiritiri Matange, off Aukland )
56 Allen's Galinule
57 ( Am. ) Purple Gallinule
58 Gough Moorhen
59 Common Moorhen
60 Dusky Moorhen
61 Lesser Moorhen
62 Spot-flanked Gallinule
63 Black-tailed Native-hen
64 Red-knobbed Coot
65 Black ( Eur. ) Coot
66 American Coot
67 Caribbean Coot
68 White-winged Coot
69 Red-gartered Coot
70 Red-fronted Coot

71 American MOORHEN ( It's a bl**dy Moorhen so call it that :C :C :C )

Chris
p.s. I like Rails :t: :t: :t:

Just thought I'd bump this thread as I had to add 71 :t:

 

[Adam W]

Only four,

Moorhen
Coot
Water Rail
Bailon's Crake

But they were all in Sunderland.

I've now added Spotted Crake though I had to venture just outside Sunderland to gateshead for that one.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

1 White-spotted Flufftail
2 Yellow Rail
3 Black Rail (HO)
4 Clapper Rail
5 King Rail
6 Virginia Rail
7 Water Rail
8 Grey-necked Wood-Rail
9 Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail
10 White-breasted Waterhen
11 Black Crake
12 Sora
13 Ash-throated Crake
14 Blackish Rail
15 Purple Swamphen
16 Allen's Gallinule
17 Purple Gallinule
18 Common Moorhen
19 Dusky Moorhen
20 Lesser Moorhen
21 Red-knobbed Coot
22 Common Coot
23 American Coot
24 Caribbean Coot
25 White-winged Coot
26 Slate-colored Coot

Add brown crake to the list.

 

[chris butterworth]

And another bump :t:

72 Brown-winged Rail ( split indicus from Water Rail )

Chris

 

[canadagurl123]

Eurasian Coot
Water Rail
In Europe

 

[csanchez7]

I haven't seen THAT many but I've got an almost complete set for Florida (Black Rail). Here we go:

ABA Area (coincidentally, all in Florida):
Yellow Rail
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot

Costa Rica:
Gray-necked Woodrail

Australia:
Buff-banded Rail
Baillon's Crake
White-browed Crake
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Native-Hen
Eurasian Coot

For a total of 16.

Carlos

I can only add one additional species to this total in the span of a year...

17) Slate-colored (Andean) Coot Ecuador

 

[skylark25]

Malta

Moorhen
Coot
Water Rail
Little Crake
Spotted Crake
Purple Swamp hen

 

[dacol]

Only 12:

King Rail
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Yellow Rail
American Coot
Common Moorhen
Purple Gallinule
Ash-throated Crake
Blackish Rail
Gray-necked Woodrail
Slaty-breasted Woodrail

 

[birdermoose]

Only got
Eurasian Coot
Common Moorhen
Water Rail

 

[viator]

27:

Swinhoe's Crake
Red-legged Crake
Barred Rail
Buff-banded Rail
Slaty-breasted Rail
Virginia Rail
Brown-cheeked Rail
Lewin's Rail
Isabelline Bush-hen
White-breasted Waterhen
Black-tailed Crake
Baillon's Crake
Australian Spotted Crake
Sora
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Spotless Crake
White-browed Crake
Watercock
Purple Swamphen
African Swamphen
Common Moorhen
Common Gallinule
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Native-hen
Red-knobbed Coot
Eurasian Coot
American Coot

 

[Larry Lade]

Thirteen (13) species of rails/coots (counting the * one heard only):

Yellow Rail, Saint Joseph, Missouri
* Gray-breasted Crake, Sacha Lodge, Ecuador (* heard only)
Black Rail, Stafford, Kansas (it took a long time to get to see this one!)
Clapper Rail, Rockport, Texas
King Rail, Austwell, Texas
Virginia Rail, Saint Joseph, Missouri
Black Crake, Baringo, Kenya, Africa
Sora, Mound City, Missouri
Purple Gallinule, Homestead, Florida
Common Moorhen, Mound City, Missouri
Red-knobbed Coot, Nakuru, Kenya, Africa
Eurasian Coot, London, England
American Coot, Mound City, Missouri

 

[nrg800]

I've only got 9 =(