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  1. Lakescape-894

    Lakescape-894

    One from the mind-blowing wetland ... ... that has disappeared completely now ... ________________ Ruddy-breasted Crake Basai Gurugram : Haryana India
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurugram habitat loss haryana india lost wetland ruddy-breasted crake zapornia fusca
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  2. Lakescape-879

    Lakescape-879

    A skulker ... ... difficult to locate ... ... and even more difficult to shoot ... _________________ Spotted Crake Village Chandu Gurugram : Haryana India 16 January 2023
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurugram haryana india porzana porzana skulking spotted crake wetland
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  3. Lakescape - 697

    Lakescape - 697

    Lakescape - 697 Post sunset shot this rare winter visitor to India ... ... now that ... this wetland is totally wiped out ... it may be well nigh impossible to spot another Spotted Crake ... soon Lost Wetland of Basai Gurugram Haryana India 28 March 2016
    • aloktewari
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    • basai wetland crake gurugram habitat degradation habitat loss india lost wetland basai porzana porzana spotted crake
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  4. Lakescape - 693 : Amazing Wildlife of India by ... Renu Tewari and Alok Tewari ; Baillon's Crake Basai Wetlands

    Lakescape - 693 : Amazing Wildlife of India by ... Renu Tewari and Alok Tewari ; Baillon's Crake Basai Wetlands

    Sighting of these elusive ... and skulking Crakes has always been uncommon in our area ... Now ... it has become rare due to degradation ... and loss of habitat ... ____________ Baillon's Crake Lost Wetlands Basai Gurgaon, India
    • aloktewari
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    • baillon's crake basai crake gurugram habitat loss haryana india lost wetland basai porzana pusilla video wetland
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  5. Spring-Summer - 362

    Spring-Summer - 362

    Spring-Summer - 362 I believe it will be good to close this series ... or as KC says ... 'this month on Crakes' with another image of this infrequently seen passage migrant in our wetlands ... Taken in post sunset twilight ... Watch the secretive little beauty in a video-clip ... Link ...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. Spring-Summer - 361

    Spring-Summer - 361

    Spring-Summer - 361 Well ... it will be unjust ... if I close this session on the little Skulkers without posting a few more closeups of them ... Baillon's is a just a sparrow sized widespread and migratory small Crake ... ... a winter visitor and passage migrant to our area ... its...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Spring-Summer - 360

    Spring-Summer - 360

    Spring-Summer - 360 One more close to sunset image ... and another fortuitous capture of Crakes ... ... two species in one frame ... in the lost wetland ... Watch the two in an enjoyable video-clip uploaded today ... Link https://ebird.org/checklist/S65208407 ___________ Ruddy-breasted...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india zapornia fusca
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  8. Spring-Summer - 359

    Spring-Summer - 359

    Spring-Summer - 359 Another Crake in the same lost wetland ... ... though removed in time ... and space by about 200 meters ... ... but nearly the same time in the evening ... Watch it in a video-clip uploaded today ... Link : https://ebird.org/checklist/S65208407 ___________...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india zapornia fusca
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  9. Spring-Summer - 358

    Spring-Summer - 358

    Spring-Summer - 358 Captured in post sunset twilight this photograpically ordinary image ... ... is of some temporal value though ... If one searched the Web ... it will be difficult to find another ... ... showing these two species of Crakes ... in one frame ... One ... frozen...
    • aloktewari
    • Media item
    • crake gurgaon haryana india
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  10. Spring-Summer - 357

    Spring-Summer - 357

    Spring-Summer - 357 Spotted ... was not the only Crake ... in that fabulous lost wetland ... ... that exists only in images like this ... now ... It is not easy to find them or capture them even when they are present ___________ Baillon's Crake Lost wtland of Basai Gugaon Haryana...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  11. Spring-Summer - 356

    Spring-Summer - 356

    Spotted Crake ... is an uncommon sighting in Indian Wetlands We present a recording of this elusive skulking winter visitor and passage migrant ... in a video-clip captured in a wetland that has been now drained dried and completely abolished ... ... sad tale of devastation of our...
    • aloktewari
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    • crake gurgaon haryana india
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  12. Ruddy-breasted Crake

    Ruddy-breasted Crake

    • Shantilal Varu
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    • crake zapornia fusca
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  13. Red-legged Crake

    Red-legged Crake

    Adult. Uncommon resident breeder and winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.
    • SeeToh
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    • crake
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  14. Slaty-legged Crake

    Slaty-legged Crake

    Of all places, this crake decided to spend most part of its winter at a basement carpark of a condominium. Like most water birds, they will freeze when felt threatened thinking that predator will not see them. Not in this case. We saw it alright and because it kept so still, I shot it handheld...
    • SeeToh
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    • crake rallina eurizonoides
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  15. Yellow Breasted Crake

    Yellow Breasted Crake

    • kneonlight
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    • crake yellow breasted crake
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  16. Band-bellied Crake

    Band-bellied Crake

    Not an easy bird to twitch even in its breeding ground but this globally near-threatened Band-bellied Crake chose to spend its winter at Singapore's very own UNESCO World Heritage site since January this year.
    • SeeToh
    • Media item
    • crake
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  17. Band-bellied Crake

    Band-bellied Crake

    Rare winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.
    • SeeToh
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    • crake
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  18. Band-bellied Crake

    Band-bellied Crake

    This is the second confirmed record in Singapore. Not an easy to see crake species in both its breeding and wintering grounds. Twitchable if you are nearby Singapore.
    • SeeToh
    • Media item
    • crake
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  19. Slaty-legged Crake / Banded Crake

    Slaty-legged Crake / Banded Crake

    A chance shot of this very shy waterbird..
    • drjpmenon
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    • crake dr.jpmenon rallina eurizonoides slaty-legged south india western ghats
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  20. Ash-throated Crake

    Ash-throated Crake

    • Rodrigo Conte
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    • albicollis ash-throated crake mustelirallus albicollis porzana rallidae
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  21. Baillon`s Crake

    Baillon`s Crake

    • Shantilal Varu
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    • crake
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  22. Ruddy-breasted Crake

    Ruddy-breasted Crake

    Adult. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore
    • SeeToh
    • Media item
    • crake zapornia fusca
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  23. White-browed Crake

    White-browed Crake

    Juvenile. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore. Settings: 640mm ISO200 1/640s f/6.3 0EV.
    • SeeToh
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    • crake
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  24. White-browed Crake

    White-browed Crake

    Adult. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore. Settings: 640mm ISO500 1/400s f/6.3 0EV.
    • SeeToh
    • Media item
    • crake
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  25. Red-and-white Crake

    Red-and-white Crake

    Red-and-white Crake - Laterallus leucopyrrhus
    • Lcverissimo
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    • crake
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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