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African common moorhen AF | African crake | African rail (African Water Rail) | African swamphen (African purple swamphen) (Green-backed swamphen) EU | Allen's gallinule (Lesser gallinule) EU ,AS,NA | American coot (incl. Caribbean coot) SA,NA | Andaman crake | Andean coot SA | Ash-throated crake (White-necked crake) | Assumption rail (Abbott`s rail) | Auckland rail | Australasian swamphen (Black-backed swamphen) AU | Australian coot | Australian Crake | Azure gallinule | Baillon's crake (Lesser spotted crake) | Band-bellied crake | Bar-winged rail | Black crake EU ,NA | Black-backed swamphen (Sunda swamphen) AS | Black-tailed native-hen | Buff weka (Eastern weka) AU | Buff-banded rail (No Subspecific status) AU,NA | Celebes barred rail | Chestnut rail (Chestnut-bellied rail) AU | Clapper rail NA | Common Gallinule (American moorhen) (Laughing moorhen) SA,NA | Common moorhen (Eurasian moorhen) (Nominate subspecies) EU ,nEU,AS,AF,SA | Corncrake EU ,nEU,AS | Dusky moorhen AU,AS | Eurasian coot EU ,nEU,AS | Fijian banded-rail | Giant coot SA | Giant wood-rail EU ,nEU,NA,SA | Gough moorhen (Gough Island coot) | Grey-headed swamphen EU ,nEU,NA,AS | Grey-necked wood rail NA,SA | Grey-necked wood-rail (Cayenne wood-rail) (No species or subspecies status) | Guam rail NA | Horned coot | Indo-Pacific common moorhen (Seychelles moorhen) AS | Indochinese swamphen (Malaysian swamphen) AS | Lemin`s rail | Lesser moorhen | Light-footed rail | Little crake | Little wood-rail | Lord Howe woodhen (Lord Howe rail) | Madagascar moorhen | New Caledonian rail (New Caledonian wood-rail) | New Zealand buff-banded rail AU | Nkulengu rail | North Island weka AU | Okinawa Rail AS | Paint-billed crake | Philippine barred rail | Philippine swamphen AS | Plain bush-hen | Plumbeous rail | Purple gallinule (American purple gallinule) (Yellow-legged gallinule) SA,NA | Purple swamphen (No Subspecific status) nEU,EU ,AS | Red-and-white crake nEU,EU | Red-fronted coot | Red-gartered coot SA | Red-knobbed coot (Crested coot) EU | Red-legged crake | Red-necked crake | Ruddy-breasted crake | Rufous-naped wood rail (Russet-naped wood rail) (White-bellied wood-rail) | Rufous-necked wood-rail (Rufous-crowned wood-rail) NA,SA | Rufous-sided crake | Russet-crowned crake (Cayenne crake) | Salawati barred rail | Samoan buff-banded rail | Samoan swamphen | Seistan purple swamphen nEU | Slaty-breasted rail | Slaty-breasted wood-rail (Saracura wood-rail) SA | Slaty-legged crake | Sora (Carolina crake) (Sora rail) NA | South Island takahe AU | South Island weka (Western weka) | Southwestern Australian swamphen | Speckled rail (Darwin`s rail) (Speckled crake) | Spot-flanked gallinule (Little waterhen) SA | Spotted crake EU | Spotted rail | Stewart Island weka AU | Tasmanian native-hen EU | Tristan moorhen | Virginia rail | Watercock AS | Weka (Woodhen) (no subspecific status) | West Mediterranean Purple Swamphen EU ,nEU | Western water rail (Water rail) EU ,AS | White-breasted waterhen AS | White-browed crake | White-throated crake | White-throated rail (Cuvier`s rail) (Nominate subspecies) | White-winged coot | Yellow rail | |
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African crake
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Crex egregia (Syn.: Crecopsis egregia) (Syn.: Porzana egregia)
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(W. K. H. PETERS, 1854) |
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Photo by: D. Sörensen (Präparat; MNH Stockholm, Schweden) | | Additional images here: www.biolib.cz |
| Number of Subspecies: | 00 | Information Source for Taxonomy: | del Hoyo & Collar (2014) Illustrated Checklist of the Birds ot the World, Vol. 1, Non-passerines | Body length: | 20 - 23 cm | Wingspan: | 40 - 42 cm | Weight: | 92 - 141 g | IUCN status: | LC (Least Concern) |
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