"HMS Landrail (1914) HMS ""Landrail"" was a of the British Royal Navy. The ""Laforey""-class (or L-class) was the class of destroyers ordered under the Royal Navy's 1912–1913 construction programme, which were armed with three 4-inch (102 mm) guns and four torpedo tubes and were capable of . The ship, which was originally to be named ""Hotspur"" but was renamed before launch, was built by the Scottish shipbuilder Yarrow between 1912 and 1914, ""Landrail"" served during the First World War. She formed part of the Harwich Force in the early years of the war, taking part in the Battle of Heligoland"
"King rail The king rail (""Rallus elegans"") is a waterbird, the largest North American rail. Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a dark brown cap. They also have a white throat and a light belly with barred flanks. Immature birds are covered in down, with light brown on the head and darker brown on the back and wings. This bird's call is a low repeated grunt transcribed as ""kek-kek-kek"". This bird breeds in marshes in eastern North America. Birds along"
"Corn crake The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (""Crex crex"") is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the northern hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- or grey-streaked brownish-black upperparts, chestnut markings on the wings, and blue-grey underparts with rust-coloured and white bars on the flanks and undertail. The strong bill is flesh-toned, the iris is pale brown, and the legs and feet are pale grey. Juveniles are similar in plumage to adults, and downy chicks are black, as with all"
"Water rail The water rail (""Rallus aquaticus"") is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are migratory, but this species is a permanent resident in the warmer parts of its breeding range. The adult is long, and, like other rails, has a body that is flattened laterally, allowing it easier passage through the reed beds it inhabits. It has mainly brown upperparts and blue-grey underparts, black barring on the flanks, long toes, a short tail and a long reddish bill. Immature birds are generally similar in"
"Laysan rail The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (""Porzana palmeri"") was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and still is an important seabird colony, and sustained a number of endemic species, including the rail. It became extinct due to habitat loss by domestic rabbits, and ultimately World War II. Its scientific name honours Henry Palmer, who collected in the Hawaiian Islands for Walter Rothschild. The following cladogram shows the placement of the among other rails, according to Slikas and colleagues, 2002: It was a small bird ( from beaktip to ""tail"""
"name for this species among naturalists has changed over the years, with ""landrail"" and variants of ""corncrake"" being preferred at various times. ""Crake gallinule"" also had a period of popularity between 1768 and 1813. The originally Older Scots ""cornecrake"" was popularised by Thomas Bewick, who used this term in his 1797 ""A History of British Birds"". Other Scots names include ""corn scrack"" and ""quailzie""; the latter term, like ""king of the quail"", ""grass quail"", the French """"roi de caille"""", and the German """"Wachtelkönig"""" refer to the association with the small gamebird. Another name, ""daker"", has been variously interpreted as onomatopoeic,"
"the corncrake's cry as a motif to illustrate his alienation in the city, he sings: <poem> Though there is no lonesome corncrake's cry Or sorrow and delight You can hear the cars And the shouts from bars And the laughter and the fights </poem> In The Decemberists ""The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)"" Colin Meloy references the corn crake's call, singing: ""And we'll lie until the corn crake crows."" Corn crake The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (""Crex crex"") is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and"
"Virginia rail The Virginia rail (""Rallus limicola"") is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. These birds remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat, but are secretive by nature and more often heard than seen. They are also considered a game species in some provinces and states, though rarely hunted. The Ecuadorian rail is often considered a subspecies, but some taxonomic authorities consider it distinct. Adults are mainly brown, darker on the back and crown, with orange-brown legs. To walk through dense vegetation, they have evolved a laterally compressed body and strong forehead feathers adapted to withstand wear from"
"African rail The African rail (""Rallus caerulescens"") is a small wetland bird of the rail family. Its breeding habitat is marshes and reedbeds across eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. Many birds are permanent residents, but some undertake seasonal movements in response to the availability of wetland. Adults are 28–30 cm long, and have mainly brown upperparts and blue-grey underparts, with black-and-white barring on the flanks and undertail. This is the only ""Rallus"" species with a plain back. The body is flattened laterally to allow easier passage through the reeds. They have long toes, a short tail"
"Calayan rail The Calayan rail (""Gallirallus calayanensis"") is a flightless bird of the rail, moorhen, and coot family (Rallidae) that inhabits Calayan Island in the Philippines. Though well-known to natives of the island as the ""piding"", it was first observed by ornithologist Carmela Española in May 2004 and the discovery officially announced on August 16, 2004. The formal description as a species new to science appeared in the journal Forktail (Allen ""et al."" 2004). The Calayan rail is one of the 20 known extant flightless rails. It is small and dark brown, with a distinctive orange-red bill and legs, and"
"this time. It has been classified as an endangered species. Calayan rail The Calayan rail (""Gallirallus calayanensis"") is a flightless bird of the rail, moorhen, and coot family (Rallidae) that inhabits Calayan Island in the Philippines. Though well-known to natives of the island as the ""piding"", it was first observed by ornithologist Carmela Española in May 2004 and the discovery officially announced on August 16, 2004. The formal description as a species new to science appeared in the journal Forktail (Allen ""et al."" 2004). The Calayan rail is one of the 20 known extant flightless rails. It is small and"
"Names recorded include ""wodjalok"", ""durdal"", ""doongorok"", and ""djoongong"" (this last name is also applied to the western wattlebird). In the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the local Barngarla people knew it as ""ngarkarko"" or ""ngarkabukko"". The local people of Denial Bay in South Australia called it ""noggal"", and the Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray region in South Australia knew it as ""rungkan"". There are three recognised subspecies, though there is a zone of intermediate birds across western Victoria and eastern South Australia, bordered by western Port Phillip Bay to the east, Mount Lofty Ranges to the West and Little"
"probing the mud while moving around in shallow water. The chicks are fed small arthropod prey by their parents. The prey is transferred from one parent's beak to that of the chick. In the males, they will give food to whoever it mates with during engagement. These birds are still common in some coastal areas, although interior populations have declined due to habitat loss. King rail The king rail (""Rallus elegans"") is a waterbird, the largest North American rail. Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on"
"Archipelago and gave Blasius his specimen of the rail. The common name refers to the rail's distinctive call, and was given to the bird as ""der Vogel Schnarch"" (the snoring bird) by German entomologist Gerd Heinrich when he rediscovered the species in 1932. The snoring rail is long and weighs . It is flightless, with short wings, a very short tail and strong legs and feet. The back and the underparts from the forecrown to the breast are grey, apart from a white chin, and the sides and rear of the neck are deep orange-red. Most of the rest of"
"Black rail The black rail (""Laterallus jamaicensis"") is a mouse-sized member of the bird family Rallidae. This bird has sometimes been considered conspecific with the Peruvian Junín crake (""L. tuerosi"") and the Galapagos crake (""L. spilonotus""). It will often make its presence known with its distinctive ""ki-ki-krr"" call or an aggressive, presumably territorial, growl. This is primarily uttered during the night, when these birds are most vocal. It is found in scattered parts of North America and the Pacific region of South America, usually in coastal salt marshes but also in some freshwater marshes. It is extinct or threatened in"
"and breast regions, allowing the birds to move rapidly through dense vegetation. The plumage or feather color and pattern of both sexes is similar, however males can often be distinguished by their larger size. The head and back are brown. It has a grey eye stripe and throat and a dark blackish breast with white barring. The legs and beak are dark brown. The Guam rail is a secretive, flightless, territorial species that is most easily observed as it bathes or feeds along roadsides or field edges. The call is a loud, piercing whistle or series of whistles, usually given"
"egret (""Egretta garzetta""); osprey (""Pandion haliaetus""); grey-faced buzzard (""Butastur indicus""); buff-banded rail (""Gallirallus philippensis""); barred rail (""Gallirallus torquatus""); white-breasted waterhen (""Amaurornis phoenicurus""); greater painted-snipe (""Rostratula benghalensis""); Kentish plover (""Charadrius alexandrines""); greater sand plover (""Charadrius leschenaultia""); whimbrel (""Numenius phaeopus""); common greenshank (""Tringa nebularia""); grey-tailed tattler (""Heteroscelus brevipes""); ruddy turnstone (""Arenaria interpres""); spotted dove (""Spilopelia chinensis""); fork-tailed swift (""Apus pacificus kanoi""); house swift (""Apus affinis""); collared kingfisher (""Todiramphus chloris""); Pacific swallow (""Hirundo tahitica""); elegant tit (""Parus elegans""); orange-flanked bush robin (""Tarsiger cyanurus""); Asian glossy starling (""Aplonis panayensis""); crested myna (""Acridotheres cristatellus""); pygmy flowerpecker (""Dicaeum pygmaeum""); lowland white-eye (""Zosterops meyeni""); and Eurasian tree"
"African rails are secretive in the breeding season, but are easier to see than many other rail species, especially in the morning. They are noisy birds, with a trilled whistled ""treee-tee-tee-tee-tee call"". African rail The African rail (""Rallus caerulescens"") is a small wetland bird of the rail family. Its breeding habitat is marshes and reedbeds across eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. Many birds are permanent residents, but some undertake seasonal movements in response to the availability of wetland. Adults are 28–30 cm long, and have mainly brown upperparts and blue-grey underparts, with black-and-white barring on the"
"on Laysan during 1923, probably mainly because no habitat for nesting was left in sufficient quantity to maintain the population. The last rail was seen on Eastern Island in Midway in June 1944. Laysan rail The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (""Porzana palmeri"") was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and still is an important seabird colony, and sustained a number of endemic species, including the rail. It became extinct due to habitat loss by domestic rabbits, and ultimately World War II. Its scientific name honours Henry Palmer, who collected in"
"days, in which the parents continue to add nesting material to conceal the nest. When the eggs hatch, the parents feed the young for two to three weeks, when the chicks become independent. The young can fly in less than a month. The pair bond between the parents breaks after the young become independent. Virginia rail The Virginia rail (""Rallus limicola"") is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. These birds remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat, but are secretive by nature and more often heard than seen. They are also considered a game species in some provinces"
"in brown. Sand lark The sand lark (""Alaudala raytal"") is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family, found in southern Asia. It is somewhat similar, but smaller than the short-toed larks. The sand lark was originally described as belonging to the genus ""Alauda"". It was later placed in the genus ""Calandrella"" until moved to ""Alaudala"" in 2014 although not all authorities have recognized this change yet. The alternate name Asian short-toed lark is usually used to refer to the species of the same name, ""Alaudala cheleensis"". Other alternate names include Ganges sand lark, Indian sand lark and Indian"
"large-billed lark is also found in cultivated and fallow agricultural land. Like other larks, the large-billed lark nests on the ground. Its food is seeds and insects, the latter especially in the breeding season. Large-billed lark The large-billed lark or southern thick-billed lark (""Galerida magnirostris"") is a small passerine bird found in southern Africa. The name ""large-billed lark"" may also refer to Bradfield's lark. The name ""thick-billed lark"" more commonly refers to the species of the same name (i.e. ""Rhamphocoris clotbey""). The large-billed lark was originally placed in the genus ""Alauda"", and then ""Calendula"" until that genus was subsequently re-named"
"Yellow rail The yellow rail (""Coturnicops noveboracensis"") is a small secretive marsh bird, of the family Rallidae. Adults have brown upperparts streaked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a light belly and barred flanks. The short thick dark bill turns yellow in males during the breeding season. The feathers on the back are edged with white. There is a yellow-brown band over the eye and the legs are greenish-yellow. Their breeding habitat is wet meadows, fens and shallow marshes across Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States and the entire northern Canada–US border Great Plains to the Great"
"expertise in rodent and snake detection, eradication, and bio-security measures. Guam rail The Guam rail (""Gallirallus owstoni"") (Chamorro name: ko'ko' ) is a species of flightless bird, endemic to the United States territory of Guam. The Guam rail disappeared from southern Guam in the early 1970s and was extirpated from the entire island by the late 1980s. This species is now being bred in captivity by the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources on Guam and at some mainland U.S. zoos. Since 1995, more than 100 rails have been introduced on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the"
"Sand lark The sand lark (""Alaudala raytal"") is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family, found in southern Asia. It is somewhat similar, but smaller than the short-toed larks. The sand lark was originally described as belonging to the genus ""Alauda"". It was later placed in the genus ""Calandrella"" until moved to ""Alaudala"" in 2014 although not all authorities have recognized this change yet. The alternate name Asian short-toed lark is usually used to refer to the species of the same name, ""Alaudala cheleensis"". Other alternate names include Ganges sand lark, Indian sand lark and Indian short-toed lark."
"150 species. They are small to medium-sized, terrestrial or wetland birds, and their short bodies are often flattened laterally to help them move through dense vegetation. Island species readily become flightless; of 53 extant or recently extinct taxa restricted to islands, 32 have lost the ability to fly. The snoring rail was first classified as ""Rallus plateni"" by German ornithologist August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius in 1886, but was moved to its current monotypic genus ""Aramidopsis"" by English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1893. Following Taylor (1998), it was considered to be more similar to the Inaccessible Island and white-throated rails"
"Large-billed lark The large-billed lark or southern thick-billed lark (""Galerida magnirostris"") is a small passerine bird found in southern Africa. The name ""large-billed lark"" may also refer to Bradfield's lark. The name ""thick-billed lark"" more commonly refers to the species of the same name (i.e. ""Rhamphocoris clotbey""). The large-billed lark was originally placed in the genus ""Alauda"", and then ""Calendula"" until that genus was subsequently re-named to the present ""Galerida"". Another alternate name used for the large-billed lark is the long-billed lark. Three subspecies are recognized: The large-billed lark is 18 cm in length. It is relatively short-tailed and has"
"to either this species or alternatively to new species in their own right, but as yet, research into them is still at a very early stage. Parrot crossbill The parrot crossbill (""Loxia pytyopsittacus"") is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. ""Loxia"" derives from ""loxos"", ""crosswise"", and ""pytyopsittacus"" is from ""pitus, pituos"", ""pine"", and ""psittakos"", ""parrot"". This bird breeds in the pine forests of northwest Europe and into western Russia. There is also a small population in Scotland, adding to the difficulty of distinguishing it from red crossbill and the endemic"
"time for black rails as they are quite vulnerable to predation outside the marsh. Black rail The black rail (""Laterallus jamaicensis"") is a mouse-sized member of the bird family Rallidae. This bird has sometimes been considered conspecific with the Peruvian Junín crake (""L. tuerosi"") and the Galapagos crake (""L. spilonotus""). It will often make its presence known with its distinctive ""ki-ki-krr"" call or an aggressive, presumably territorial, growl. This is primarily uttered during the night, when these birds are most vocal. It is found in scattered parts of North America and the Pacific region of South America, usually in coastal"
"Guam rail The Guam rail (""Gallirallus owstoni"") (Chamorro name: ko'ko' ) is a species of flightless bird, endemic to the United States territory of Guam. The Guam rail disappeared from southern Guam in the early 1970s and was extirpated from the entire island by the late 1980s. This species is now being bred in captivity by the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources on Guam and at some mainland U.S. zoos. Since 1995, more than 100 rails have been introduced on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in an attempt to establish a wild"
"to return to islands including Lewis and Harris, and further projects are ongoing or planned on the Scottish mainland. Locally, habitat may be affected by the drainage of marshes, canalisation of water courses, urban encroachment, and by pollution. Water rails have been eaten by humans for thousands of years; they were eaten by the Romans, and depicted in wall paintings at Pompeii, and consumption continued through the Middle Ages to modern times. Water rail The water rail (""Rallus aquaticus"") is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern"
"named from its harsh cry, in Vulgar Latin *""rascula"", from Latin ""rādere"" ('to scrape'). The rails are a family of small to medium-sized, ground-living birds. They vary in length from and in weight from . Some species have long necks and in many cases are laterally compressed. The bill is the most variable feature within the family. In some species, it is longer than the head (like the clapper rail of the Americas); in others, it may be short and wide (as in the coots), or massive (as in the purple gallinules). A few coots and gallinules have a frontal"
"threats are not exactly known but it has been and is continuing to be hunted at Dalton Pass. Brown-banded rail The brown-banded rail (""Lewinia mirifica"") is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, known from Luzon and Samar. Details about its life and breeding are not known. Its habitat is listed to be cloudforest, near pine forest and undisturbed river swamp and is found at 500-2,250 meters. It is largely known from migration records of 200 sightings from 1965 to 1970 at Dalton Pass so it is thought to be migratory. The most"