Virginia rail
The Virginia rail probe with its bill in mud or shallow water, also picking up food by sight. It mainly eat insects and other aquatic invertebrates, like beetles, flies, dragonflies, crayfish, snails and earthworms. It can also eat aquatic animals like frogs, fish and some small snakes, as well as seeds. Animal preys constitute the biggest part of this bird's diet, but vegetation contributes to its diet in the fall and winter.
Grey-necked wood rail
Placed in the family Rallidae—the rails—this species was originally described as "Fulica Cajanea" by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, in his 1776 "Vollständiges Natursystem". Müller based his description on the illustration “Poule d’Eau de Cayenne” (Cayenne’s water hen) by French naturalist and artist Edme-Louis Daubenton in his "Planches Enlumineés d’Histoire Naturelle". It was eventually moved to the new genus "Aramides", the wood rails, by Jacques Pucheran in 1845, and the specific epithet was changed to "cajaneus".