Gruiformes

Finfoots (Heliornithidae)

HBW 3, p. 210

• Medium-sized largely aquatic birds, with brightly coloured lobed toes.
• Pantropical.
• Thickly vegetated margins of rivers, lakes and swamps.
• 3 genera, 3 species, 6 taxa.
• 1 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.