Rails & Coots in Tunisia
Our list for Tunisia has 5 rails & coots recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Tunisia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 5, most common first
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrioResidentCommon45–50 cmRegularly Dec–Sep
Water RailRallus aquaticusScarceUncommon23–28 cm
Spotted CrakePorzana porzanaPassage migrantUncommon19–23 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