IOC English Name Scientific Name Comments
     
 
ORDER OTIDIFORMES
 PHY, TAX (1)
Bustards (26)
Family Otididae
  
Great Bustard Otis tarda  
Arabian Bustard Ardeotis arabs  
Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori  
Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps  
Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis  
Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata  
Macqueen's Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii  
Ludwig's Bustard Neotis ludwigii  
Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami  
Heuglin's Bustard Neotis heuglinii  
Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba  
White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis PHY (2) , TAX (3)
Blue Korhaan Eupodotis coerulescens  
Karoo Korhaan Eupodotis vigorsii  
Rüppell's Korhaan Eupodotis rueppelii  
Little Brown Bustard Eupodotis humilis  
Savile's Bustard Lophotis savilei  
Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana  
Red-crested Korhaan Lophotis ruficrista  
Southern Black Korhaan Afrotis afra  
Northern Black Korhaan Afrotis afraoides  
Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster  
Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii  
Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis  
Lesser Florican Sypheotides indicus  
Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax  
     
 
ORDER MESITORNITHIFORMES
 PHY, TAX (4)
Mesites (3)
Family Mesitornithidae
  
White-breasted Mesite Mesitornis variegatus  
Brown Mesite Mesitornis unicolor  
Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi  
     
 
ORDER CARIAMIFORMES
 PHY, TAX (5)
Seriemas (2)
Family Cariamidae
  
Red-legged Seriema Cariama cristata  
Black-legged Seriema Chunga burmeisteri  
     
 
ORDER EURYPYGIFORMES
 PHY, TAX (6)
Kagu (1)
Family Rhynochetidae
 PHY (7)
Kagu Rhynochetos jubatus  
     
Sunbittern (1)
Family Eurypygidae
  
Sunbittern Eurypyga helias  
     
 
ORDER GRUIFORMES
 PHY (8)
Flufftails (9)
Family Sarothruridae
 PHY (9)
White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra  
Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans  
Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa  
Chestnut-headed Flufftail Sarothrura lugens  
Streaky-breasted Flufftail Sarothrura boehmi  
Striped Flufftail Sarothrura affinis  
Madagascar Flufftail Sarothrura insularis  
White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi  
Slender-billed Flufftail Sarothrura watersi  
     
Finfoots (3)
Family Heliornithidae
 PHY (10)
African Finfoot Podica senegalensis  
Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus  
Sungrebe Heliornis fulica  
     
Rails, Crakes & Coots (132)
Family Rallidae
  
Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus  
Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus  
Madagascar Wood Rail Canirallus kioloides  
Tsingy Wood Rail Canirallus beankaensis AS (11)
Swinhoe's Rail Coturnicops exquisitus  
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis  
Speckled Rail Coturnicops notatus ENG (12)
Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii  
Chestnut Forest Rail Rallicula rubra TAX (13) , ENG (14)
White-striped Forest Rail Rallicula leucospila ENG (15)
Forbes's Forest Rail Rallicula forbesi ENG (16)
Mayr's Forest Rail Rallicula mayri ENG (17)
Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor  
Andaman Crake Rallina canningi  
Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata  
Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides  
Chestnut-headed Crake Anurolimnas castaneiceps  
Russet-crowned Crake Laterallus viridis  
Black-banded Crake Laterallus fasciatus  
Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius  
Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi  
Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber  
White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis  
Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis  
Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis TAX (18)
Junin Crake Laterallus tuerosi  
Galapagos Crake Laterallus spilonotus  
Red-and-white Crake Laterallus leucopyrrhus  
Rufous-faced Crake Laterallus xenopterus  
Bar-winged Rail Nesoclopeus poecilopterus  
Woodford's Rail Nesoclopeus woodfordi  
Weka Gallirallus australis  
Calayan Rail Gallirallus calayanensis  
New Caledonian Rail Gallirallus lafresnayanus  
Lord Howe Woodhen Gallirallus sylvestris  
Okinawa Rail Gallirallus okinawae  
Barred Rail Gallirallus torquatus  
Pink-legged Rail Gallirallus insignis  
Buff-banded Rail Gallirallus philippensis  
Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni  
Roviana Rail Gallirallus rovianae  
Slaty-breasted Rail Gallirallus striatus  
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris  
King Rail Rallus elegans  
Plain-flanked Rail Rallus wetmorei  
Virginia Rail Rallus limicola  
Ecuadorian Rail Rallus aequatorialis AS (19)
Bogota Rail Rallus semiplumbeus  
Austral Rail Rallus antarcticus  
Water Rail Rallus aquaticus  
Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus AS (20)
African Rail Rallus caerulescens  
Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis  
Brown-banded Rail Lewinia mirifica  
Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis  
Auckland Rail Lewinia muelleri  
White-throated Rail Dryolimnas cuvieri  
African Crake Crex egregia  
Corn Crake Crex crex  
Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii  
Snoring Rail Aramidopsis plateni  
Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi  
Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle  
Rufous-necked Wood Rail Aramides axillaris  
Grey-necked Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus  
Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi  
Giant Wood Rail Aramides ypecaha  
Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura  
Red-winged Wood Rail Aramides calopterus  
Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor  
Blue-faced Rail Gymnocrex rosenbergii  
Talaud Rail Gymnocrex talaudensis  
Bare-eyed Rail Gymnocrex plumbeiventris  
Brown Crake Amaurornis akool ENG (21)
Isabelline Bush-hen Amaurornis isabellina  
Plain Bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea  
Pale-vented Bush-hen Amaurornis moluccana AS (22)
Talaud Bush-hen Amaurornis magnirostris  
White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus  
Black Crake Amaurornis flavirostra  
Sakalava Rail Amaurornis olivieri  
Black-tailed Crake Porzana bicolor  
Little Crake Porzana parva  
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla  
Spotted Crake Porzana porzana  
Australian Crake Porzana fluminea  
Sora Porzana carolina  
Dot-winged Crake Porzana spiloptera  
Ash-throated Crake Porzana albicollis  
Ruddy-breasted Crake Porzana fusca  
Band-bellied Crake Porzana paykullii  
Spotless Crake Porzana tabuensis  
Red-eyed Crake Porzana atra  
Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer  
White-browed Crake Porzana cinerea  
Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis  
Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai  
Colombian Crake Neocrex colombiana  
Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops  
Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus  
Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans  
Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus  
Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris  
Invisible Rail Habroptila wallacii  
New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta ENG (23)
Watercock Gallicrex cinerea  
Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio  
African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis  
Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri  
Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni  
Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinicus  
Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris  
Makira Woodhen Gallinula silvestris  
Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri AS, ENG (24)
Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus  
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata AS (25)
Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa  
Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata  
Spot-flanked Gallinule Gallinula melanops  
Black-tailed Nativehen Tribonyx ventralis TAX (26)
Tasmanian Nativehen Tribonyx mortierii  
Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata  
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra  
Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai  
American Coot Fulica americana  
Caribbean Coot Fulica caribaea  
White-winged Coot Fulica leucoptera  
Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca  
Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata  
Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons  
Giant Coot Fulica gigantea  
Horned Coot Fulica cornuta  
     
Trumpeters (3)
Family Psophiidae
  
Grey-winged Trumpeter Psophia crepitans  
Pale-winged Trumpeter Psophia leucoptera  
Dark-winged Trumpeter Psophia viridis TAX (27)
     
Cranes (15)
Family Gruidae
  
Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum  
Black Crowned Crane Balearica pavonina  
Siberian Crane Grus leucogeranus TAX, SEQ (28) , PHY, TAX (29)
Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis  
White-naped Crane Grus vipio  
Sarus Crane Grus antigone  
Brolga Grus rubicunda  
Demoiselle Crane Grus virgo  
Blue Crane Grus paradisea  
Wattled Crane Grus carunculata  
Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis  
Whooping Crane Grus americana  
Common Crane Grus grus  
Hooded Crane Grus monacha  
Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis  
     
Limpkin (1)
Family Aramidae
  
Limpkin Aramus guarauna  

Footnotes:

  1. MOVE: bustards (Otididae) from the Gruiformes to their own Order, the Otidiformes (Hackett et al. 2008)
  2. Eupodotis is biphyletic, with rueppellii, humilis and vigorsii forming a deep branch and the three other species grouped with Afrotis (Pitra et al. 2002,Fjeldså comm, REF).
  3. Includes Barrow's Korhaan (barrowii) as a ssp (Roberts VII, HBW 3)
  4. MOVE: Mesites (Mesitornithidae) from the Gruiformes to their own Order, the Mesitornithiformes (Hackett et al. 2008, relationships uncertain)
  5. MOVE: seriemas (Cariamidae) from the Gruiformes to their own Order, the Cariamiformes (Hackett et al. 2008)
  6. The Kagu (Rhynochetidae) and Sunbittern (Eurypygidae) are removed from the Gruiformes to a new Order, tentatively named the "Eurypygiformes" (Hackett et al. 2008).
  7. The Kagu (Rhynochetidae) and Sunbittern (Eurypygidae) are sister taxa (Hackett et al. 2008).
  8. Long recognized to be an artificial assemblage of taxa, the Gruiformes is now restricted to flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, and Limpkin (Hackett et al. 2008)
  9. The flufftails (Sarothruridae) and finfoots (Heliornithidae) are sister taxa (Hackett et al. 2008)
  10. The finfoots (Heliornithidae) and flufftails (Sarothruridae) are sister taxa (Hackett et al. 2008)
  11. Tsingy Wood Rail is split from Madagascar Wood Rail based on Goodman et al 2011)
  12. CHANGE English name of Coturnicops notatus to Speckled Rail, which is consistent with Yellow Rail per SACC
  13. MOVE the following 4 rail species from Rallina to Rallicula (Christidis & Boles 2008)
  14. CHANGE: English name of Rallicula (Rallina) rubra to Chestnut Forest Rail (Gregory 2009)
  15. CHANGE: English name of Rallicula (Rallina) leucospila to White-striped Forest Rail (Gregory 2009)
  16. CHANGE: English name of Rallicula (Rallina) forbesi to Forbes's Forest Rail (Gregory 2009)
  17. CHANGE: English name of Rallicula (Rallina) mayri to Mayr's Forest Rail (Gregory 2009)
  18. Laterallus jamaicensis includes subspecies salinasi, which may deserve recognition (Jaramillo 2003); SACC needs proposal to split
  19. Rallus aequatorialis is split from R.limicola (Ridgely et al. 2001); SACC needs proposal
  20. Rallus indicus is split from R. aquaticus (Livezey 1998; Rasmussen & Anderton 2005;Tavares, de Kroon & Baker 2010)
  21. CHANGE: English name of Amaurornis akool to widely adopted Brown Crake
  22. Amaurornis moluccana is split from A. olivacea (Livezey 1998, Christidis & Boles 2008, BLI 1.0)
  23. CHANGE: English name of Megacrex inepta to New Guinea Flightless Rail (Gregory 2009)
  24. Gallinula comeri is split from its (extinct) flightlless relative G.nesiotis (Collar & Stuart 1985); BLI recognizes; Change name to traditional "moorhen" (P.Ryan)
  25. Common Gallinule of Western Hemisphere is split from Common Moorhen on the basis of morphological, genetic, and vocal differences (Groenenberg et al 2008, SACC 416, NACC-2010-10)
  26. Two species of nativehens are moved from Gallinula to Tribonyx (Livezey 1998, Christidis & Boles 2008)
  27. Three subspecies of Dark-winged Trumpeter may deserve species status (Oppenheimer & Silveira 2009)
  28. Grus includes embedded genera Anthropoides and Bugeranus; resquence to follow Krajewski et al (2010)
  29. canadensis clade of Grus cranes may deserve generic recognition (Krajewski et al 2010; Fjeldså comm)