Search :   Actual Scientific name : French name English name Aenigmatolimnas marginalis Marouette rayée  Striped Crake  Amaurornis flavirostra Râle à bec jaune  Black Crake  Crecopsis egregia Râle d'Afrique  African Crake  Crex crex Râle des genêts  Corn Crake  Fulica cristata Foulque huppé  Red-knobbed Coot  Gallinula angulata Petite poule d'eau africaine  Lesser Moorhen  Gallinula chloropus meridionalis Poule d'eau  Common Moorhen  Porphyrio alleni Poule d'Allen  Allen's Gallinule  Porphyrio porphyrio madagascariensis Poule sultane  Purple Swamphen  Porzana porzana Marouette ponctuée  Spotted Crake  Porzana pusilla intermedia Marouette de Baillon  Baillon's Crake  Rallus caerulescens Râle bleuâtre  African Water Rail  Sarothrura boehmi Râle nain de Böhm  Boehm's (Streaky-breasted) Flufftail  Sarothrura elegans Râle ponctué  Buff-spotted Flufftail  Sarothrura lugens lynesi Râle nain à tête chatain  Chestnut-headed Flufftail; Long-toed Flufftail  Sarothrura pulchra centralis Râle pygmée  White-spotted Flufftail  Sarothrura rufa rufa râle nain à poitrine châtain  Red-chested Flufftail  Warning : This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors. The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed. We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us. +  You are in : ROOT > Vertebrata (Vertebrates) > Aves (Birds) > Gruiformes > Rallidae (rails, flufftails, crakes) Design by McArnolds Group SA | Development and code by AMESIS SPRL