Corn Crake or Corncrake
Rails
The Corn Crake (Crex crex), or landrail is a small bird in the family Rallidae.
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Corn Crake
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Corn Crake: Medium rail, buff-yellow overall with brown-barred flanks, conspicuous chestnut wing patch, gray head and neck with dark crown, yellow bill. Eats worms, insects, snails, slugs, sometimes seeds and grains.
Corn Crake
Crex crex (Linnaeus)
Status One record. McKinlay (1899) reports on the province's only specimen (whereabouts now unknown), taken near Pictou "nearly a quarter century ago in the month of October.
Crex crex - Corn Crake
Gallinula
Gallinula chloropus - Moorhen, Common Gallinule
Gallinula martinica - American Purple Gallinule
Porphyrula
Porphyrula alleni - Allen's Gallinule
Fulica ...
Indeed,if we have a bird in America approaching in its habits the Corn Crake of Europe, it is the Yellow-breasted Rail: it also resembles in its habits the European Quail, ...
 See also: Eagle, Lapwing, Crake, Quail, Sandpiper
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