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Brown-cheeked rail
Rallus aquaticus · Family Rallidae
Rallus aquaticus
Family Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,049,393
- Countries and territories with records
- 98
About this species
This species has 1,049,393 occurrence records from 98 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (21.4%), the Netherlands (14.1%), Denmark (11.3%), the United Kingdom (10.5%) and France (9.8%); together they account for 67.1% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Rallus aquaticus combines the genus name Rallus with the species epithet aquaticus. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Rallus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Rallus limicola, Rallus crepitans and Rallus elegans.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 122 species of the family Rallidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Fulica americana. Its record count is 4.3 times the family average (243,573). The family Rallidae belongs to the order Gruiformes, which has 150 species in the Warbla app catalog.