Crake
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Rail - common name for some members of the large family Rallidae, marsh birds that include the gallinule and the coot, two specialized rails.
Corncrake (Crex crex)
The Corncrake breeds across temperate Europe and southern Siberia. From August to November most birds migrate to sub-Saharan Africa from where they return in March / April.
Corncrake
Browsing through Henry Stevenson's massive three-volume Birds of Norfolk, I chanced upon an account of a nocturnal visit to Surlingham 'one of our prettiest Broads, and, from its close vicinity to Brundall Station, ...
Corn Crake or Corncrake
Rails
The Corn Crake (Crex crex), or landrail is a small bird in the family Rallidae.
Distribution / Range ...
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.
Corn Crake
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Black Crake Amaurornis flavirostris
Described by: Swainson (1837)
Alternate common name(s): African Black Crake
Old scientific name(s): Amaurornis flavirostra, Limnocorax flavirostra, Porzana flavirostra ...
Crakes are found throughout the world. The spotted, little and Bailon's crakes are found in Europe and Asia, and Baillon's crakes are also found in southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, ...
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.
Spotted crake (Porzana porzana)
Henderson crake (Porzana atra)
Laysan crake (Porzana palmeri)
Slender-billed flufftail (Sarothrura watersi)
Dieffenbach's rail (Gallirallus dieffenbachii)
Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai) ...
Spotless crake are more often heard than seen and have a wide variety of calls which are usually heard at dawn and dusk.
The spotted crake is only the size of a starling. Breeding adults have a brown back with dark streaks, a blue-grey face and an olive-brown breast - all covered with white flecks and spots. The under tail is a warm buff colour.
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves (Birds) Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae
Ruddy-breasted Crake (Porzana fusca) is a common resident in India. Size: 22 cm ...
CRAKE-GALLINULE.
Bill shorter than the head, rather stout, deep, compressed, tapering; upper mandible with the dorsal line nearly straight, being slightly convex toward the end, the ridge flattish for a short space at the base, ...
Crake, Ruddy-breasted Porzana fusca Found: Asia
Photographed by PHD White in Taiwan
Crake, White-browed Porzana cinerea Found: Australia, Asia
Photographed by old apple ...
Corncrake
(Crex crex)
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Purple Gallinule (Purple Swamphen)
(Porphyrio porphyrio) ...
Rails, Crakes, Swamphens, Coots
Weka Gallirallus australis
Banded Rail Rallus philippensis (Moho-pereru)
Auckland Island Rail Rallus pectoralis ...
Black crake (Amaurornis flavirostra)
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Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
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RALLIDAE - Rails, Crakes, and Coots
Inaccessible Island Rail
Common Moorhen
What is a Coot?
OTHER NAMES: Yellow Crake, Little Yellow Rail (Terres 1980).
DESCRIPTION: A small (16-18 cm [6-7.5 in.]) and very secretive rail with buffy-yellow plumage except for darker crown, broad eyeline, back streaks, ...
: The black crake frequents several types of freshwater habitats but prefers the dense undergrowth of the wet clearings in wooded areas, and the grassy marshes in open areas.
These include 14 species of large cranes, about 145 species of smaller crakes and rails, as well as a variety of families comprising one to three species, such as the Heliornithidae, the limpkin, or the trumpeters.
The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules.
Taylor, B. 1998. Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, and Coots of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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This marsh bird is six to eight inches in length with a wingspan of 12 inches. It has a yellow bill and yellow legs. It has a brown body and wings, a gray chest and belly and a black mask on its face. The sora is sometimes called the Carolina crake ...
 See also: Flamingo, Pigeon, Pheasant, Spoonbill, Sparrow
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