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African Crake

From Opus

Photo by MURAMURAPhoto taken: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, August 2006
Photo by MURAMURA
Photo taken: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, August 2006
Crecopsis egregia

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[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 Crex.

[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

[edit] External Links

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