Archive for the ‘Crakes’ Category

• Baillon’s crake

  Jul 19 | Crakes | Little Stint | 958 Views | with No Comments

  The Baillon’s crake – Zapornia pusilla or Marsh crake is a small rail species of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order Gruiformes. It is widely but thinly distributed across Europe but its main breeding...

• Little crake

  Jul 19 | Crakes | Little Stint | 924 Views | with No Comments

  The Little crake – Zapornia parva – according to eBird and Birdlife, but has an alternative scientific name in other sources – is a very small water bird of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order...

• Spotted crake

  Jul 17 | Crakes | Little Stint | 889 Views | with No Comments

  The Spotted crake – Porzana porzana is a small species of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order Gruiformes. It has an extensive range across Eurasia to Mongolia, it is strongly migratory with the eastern birds...

• Corn crake

  Jul 16 | Crakes | Little Stint | 892 Views | with No Comments

  The Corn crake – Crex crex is a medium sized species of rail of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order Gruiformes. It has a very extensive Breeding Range from W Europe to E Asia, and migrates to winter in...