The British Trust For Ornithology helpfully explains that the Rallidae is a family of birds that includes such less-than-romantic species as the moorhen and the coot. Paper Birds is the debut release ...
" Two new species of flightless rails (Aves : Rallidae) from the Middle Pleistocene "crane fauna" of Bermuda." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 113, (2) 356–368.
As humans are christened around birth, before their character becomes manifest and their frame takes complete shape, there is always the possibility that their name might suggest the opposite of what ...