bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Gruiformes, order Gruiformes - inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

rail - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud

Gallirallus, genus Gallirallus - rails of New Zealand

Crex, genus Crex - corncrakes

genus Porzana, Porzana - spotted crakes

Gallinula, genus Gallinula - gallinules

genus Porphyrio, Porphyrio - Old World purple gallinules

genus Porphyrula, Porphyrula - American purple gallinules

genus Notornis - a genus of Rallidae

Fulica, genus Fulica - coots