Rails & Coots in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 5 rails & coots recorded regularly there: 4 residents and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 5, most common first
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
CootFulica atraResidentUncommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
Water RailRallus aquaticusResidentUncommon23–28 cmRecorded all year
Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrioResidentUncommon45–50 cmRecorded all year
Spotted CrakePorzana porzanaPassage migrantRare19–23 cmRegularly Mar
Smallest to largest
Length, cmBody length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made