-
overall are
known as
finfoots,
although one
species is
known as a sungrebe. The
family is
composed of
three species in
three genera.
Finfoots resemble rails;...
- The
African finfoot (Podica senegalensis) is an
aquatic bird from the
family Heliornithidae (the
finfoots and sungrebe). The
species lives in the rivers...
- The
masked finfoot or
Asian finfoot (Heliopais personatus) is a
highly endangered aquatic bird that was
formerly distributed throughout the
fresh and brackish...
- Heliornithidae, to
which it belongs,
contains just two
other species: the
African finfoot,
Podica senegalensis,
found in the
Afrotropics from Sub-saharan West Africa...
-
status in the
common IBA and park area
include white-winged duck,
masked finfoot and white-rumped vulture.
Elsewhere in the park
important species include...
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2023). "Flufftails,
finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin".
World Bird List
Version 13.2. International...
-
Sundarbans hold
globally important numbers of the
critically endangered masked finfoot and are
important wintering sites for the spoon-billed
sandpiper and the...
- eagle, gymnogene,
jackal buzzard, white-rumped vulture, bald ibis,
African finfoot,
Knysna lourie, purple-crested lourie, Gurney's sugarbird,
malachite sunbird...
-
Brazil has one of the
richest bird
diversities in the world. The
avifauna of
Brazil include a
total of 1860
confirmed species of
which 238 are endemic...
- are
dependent on the
rivers or ****ociated dams,
including the
African finfoot, white-backed
night heron, white-crowned
lapwing and
water thick-knee....
