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Photo taken: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, August 2006

Crex egregia

Crecopsis egregia

[edit] Identification

23cm. Black head, brown eye, grey bill, white throat, black and white back, grey legs.

[edit] Distribution

Found in sub-Saharan Africa
Western Africa: The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland

Rare vagrant to the western Palearctic: a handful of records for the Canary Islands.

[edit] Taxonomy

• A monotypic species.
• Sometimes placed in the genus Crecopsis.

[edit] Habitat

Near water and under cover of waterside vegetation or marshland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes snails, worms and insects as well as some vegetable matter.

[edit] Breeding

Monogamous. They nest in branches of a tree or shrub. 2-8 pink eggs are laid.

[edit] References

1. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links