Rufous-sided Crake

ID Features: Often common, but usually hard to see. Best detected by voice, a very long explosive trill. The plumage is olive-brown above with rufous face and sides, and striking black-and-white bars on the flank and vent. Similar to Red-and-white Crake, which lacks the dark cap.
Habitat: Found in damp grasslands, extensive wetlands, and sometimes rank pastures.
Locations: Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

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White-breasted Waterhen

ID Features: Large, size of Eurasian Moorhen. Adult boldly pied; dark slate-gray from crown to tail and wings, contrasting strongly with white forehead, face and underparts; lower belly and undertail-coverts cinnamon. Juvenile has gray-white face, foreneck and breast. Restless, flicks cooked tail. Bill stout, straw yellow, but red at base of upper mandible; eyes black; tarsi bright yellow.
Habitat: Resident from Pakistan to the Sunda Islands and S & SE China. Common and often conspicuous, foraging in open areas amongst mangroves, along streams and rivers, wet marshes, grassy swamps, wet fields, and grasslands to 1,500 m.
Locations: India, Vietnam. Malaysia, Singapore, Oman, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

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Eurasian moorhen

ID Features: A Pigeon-sized, dark bird with rather long tail and long green legs and long toes. Bill red with yellow tip. Slate-gray plumage (upperparts brown-tinged) with a white line along side of body and white sides to undertail-coverts (forming inverted white V in rear view). Carries tail high and jerks it when walking, also jerks head when swimming.
Juvenile is gray-brown with dirty white chin and throat; identified by shape and actions, also by pale line along side and white undertail-coverts.
Habitat: Common breeder on smaller lakes, ponds, pools and rivers with dense vegetation cover. Usually secretive but in some places quite bold, and may be seen strolling in open on grass and waterside meadows. Nest a roofed basket well hidden in dense vegetation.
Locations: Cambodia, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Bhutan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Sri Lanka, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Cape Verde, Egypt, Morocco, Namibia, Mauritius, Madagascar, Senegal, Cyprus, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, France, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia

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