Forest Farm Water Rails

Gruiformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 January 2018.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 March 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 March 2020.

[Rallus aquaticus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Water rail]

The sound of the water rail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the water rail across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).