Brown Crake - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by mikemik
China, November 2005

Alternative name: Brown Bush-hen

Zapornia akool

Amaurornis akool

Identification

28cm.

Distribution

India to Myanmar, China, and Vietnam

Taxonomy

Photo by Rajiv Lather
Sonipat, India, February 2005

Placed in genus Amaurornis by IOC.

Subspecies¹

• Z. a. akool - India to Bangladesh and western Myanmar
• Z. a. coccineipes - South-eastern China to north-eastern Vietnam

Habitat

Swampy woodlands.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Brown Crake. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown_Crake

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