Galapagos Crake
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Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

Galapagos Crake

Laterallus spilonota

VUVulnerable Endemic to Ecuador
Family
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (Rallidae)
Order
Gruiformes

Overview

The Galapagos crake (Laterallus spilonota), also called the Galapagos rail and Darwin's rail, is a vulnerable species of rail in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It resembles its sister species, the black rail of the Americas, from which it diverged 1.2 million years ago.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Galapagos.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.