Archive for the ‘Crakes’ Category

• Baillon’s crake

  Jul 19 | Crakes | Little Stint | 740 Views | with No Comments

  The Baillon’s crake – (Zapornia pusilla) or Marsh crake is a small species of water bird of the family Rallidae. It is widely but thinly distributed across Europe but its main breeding range is right across Asia from...

• Little crake

  Jul 19 | Crakes | Little Stint | 725 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 the family Rallidae. It is a summer breeder,...

• Spotted crake

  Jul 17 | Crakes | Little Stint | 702 Views | with No Comments

  The Spotted crake (Porzana porzana) is a small species of water bird of the family Rallidae. It has an extensive range across Eurasia to Mongolia, it is strongly migratory with the eastern birds wintering in the Indian...

• Corn crake

  Jul 16 | Crakes | Little Stint | 701 Views | with No Comments

  The Corn crake (Crex crex) is a medium sized species of crake of the ground/wetland bird family Rallidae. It has a very extensive Breeding Range from W Europe to E Asia, and migrates to winter in southern Africa. In the AWB...