crake

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ___________...

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...

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...

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...

Adult. Uncommon resident breeder and winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.

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...

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.

Rare winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.

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.

A chance shot of this very shy waterbird..

Adult. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore

Juvenile. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore. Settings: 640mm ISO200 1/640s f/6.3 0EV.

Adult. Uncommon resident breeder of Singapore. Settings: 640mm ISO500 1/400s f/6.3 0EV.

Red-and-white Crake - Laterallus leucopyrrhus

One of the great skulker. Difficult bird to see, observe and photograph as they tend to hide themself in the reeds or dense grasslands.

Not an easy shoot as it often stays obscured in the vegetation.