African Finfoot
Podica senegalensis
Finfoots (Heliornithidae) · Gruiformes (Gruiformes)
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Often mixed up with
In quizzes, players most often confuse African Finfoot with these birds— either this species was picked by mistake, or the other way around.
| Species | Mix-ups |
|---|---|
| Little Bittern Botaurus minutus | 1 |
Family
The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots. The family overall are known as finfoots, although one species is known as a sungrebe. The family is composed of three species in three genera.
Order
The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means 'crane form'. Traditionally, a number of wading and terrestrial bird families that did not seem to belong to any other order were classified together as Gruiformes.