Archive for the ‘Crakes’ Category

• Striped crake

  Aug 7 | Crakes, Rails+ | Little Stint | 8 Views | with Comments Off on Striped crake

  Striped crake – Amaurornis marginalis – or Aenigmatolimnas marginalis – is a small resident/migratory African crake of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order Gruiformes. It has two populations in s s...

• Ruddy-breasted crake

  Mar 31 | Crakes, Rails+ | Little Stint | 80 Views | with Comments Off on Ruddy-breasted crake

  Ruddy-breasted crake – Zapornia fusca – is a mid-sized migratory/resident Asian shorebird of Type – marshfowl, Family Rallidae and Order Gruiformes. It is found across S, SE and E Asia from Pakistan to Japan, it...

• Baillon’s crake

  Jul 19 | Crakes, Rails+ | Little Stint | 1444 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, Rails+ | Little Stint | 1301 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, Rails+ | Little Stint | 1262 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...

• Corn crake

  Jul 16 | Crakes, Rails+ | Little Stint | 1233 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...