While most flightless birds are fairly large, this little guy is the smallest flightless bird in the world. Found in the South Atlantic Ocean, what family of birds does he belong to?

This is the Inaccessible Island rail, so-named because it lives in an isolated place called "Inaccessible Island" in the Tristan Archipelago in the south Atlantic. Hard to believe anyone ever found it, but it was first described way back in 1923 by Percy Lowe, although it had already been discovered some 50 years earlier.

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