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                      | Image details: |  |   
                      | Image Description: | Water Rail. |   
                      | Image notes: | This Water Rail became quite tame before the end of the winter. Mrs Polson fed it bread. |   
                      | Species in Image: | Water Rail |   
                      | Date: | 1977 |   
                      | Area: | Yell |   
                      | Old Haa Image Reference Number: | btc00681 |  
 
 
| General details: |  |   
| Common Name | Water Rail |   
| Latin Name | Rallus aquaticua |   
| Latin Group Name | Guriformes |   
| Latin Family Name | Rallidae |   
| Common Family Name | Rails and Crakes |   
| Description | Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor.  Most sightings in autumn & early winter.  Nested in Haroldswick, Unst 1999-2001.  Photographed at Vigga, West Yell. |  |