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Ruddy-breasted Crake

Zapornia fusca

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFish

WetlandPlatform nestSmall · 57 g

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 1 — Photo: Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 2 — Photo: Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 3 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Legawa, Everest C., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 6 — Photo: (c) grass_0, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 9 — Photo: (c) renjus box, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ruddy-breasted Crake (Zapornia fusca), photo 10 — Photo: (c) renjus box, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Ruddy-breasted Crake sounds like

Sonogram of the Ruddy-breasted Crake: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Manoj Karingamadathil · Call · Adatt, Thrissur, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Ruddy-breasted Crake

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Ruddy-breasted Crake

Regular range

The map shades 22 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Ruddy-breasted Crake

The ruddy-breasted crake, or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae, formerly included in the genus Porzana.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Baillon's Crake (Zapornia pusilla)

Baillon's CrakeZapornia pusillaThey are 15–18 cm (5.9–7.1 in) in length, and are similar in appearance to the little crake.

Spotless Crake (Zapornia tabuensis)

Spotless CrakeZapornia tabuensisAs an adult the spotless crake can reach a length of 17 – 20 cm; a wingspan of 26 – 29 cm; and can weigh between 40 – 50g.

Little Crake (Zapornia parva)

Little CrakeZapornia parvaThe little crake is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae. parva is Latin for "small".

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