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- African_crake abstract "The African crake (Crex egregia) is a bird in the rail family that breeds in most of sub-Saharan Africa away from the arid south and southwest. It is seasonally common in most of its range other than the rainforests and areas that have low annual rainfall. This crake is a partial migrant, moving away from the equator as soon as the rains provide sufficient grass cover to allow it to breed elsewhere. There have been a few records of vagrant birds reaching Atlantic islands. This species nests in a wide variety of grassland types, and agricultural land with tall crops may also be used.A smallish crake, the African crake has brown-streaked blackish upperparts, bluish-grey underparts and black-and-white barring on the flanks and belly. It has a stubby red bill, red eyes, and a white line from the bill to above the eye. It is smaller than its closest relative, the corn crake; that species is also lighter-plumaged, and has an eye stripe. The African crake has a range of calls, the most characteristic being a series of rapid grating krrr notes. It is active during the day, and is territorial on both the breeding and non-breeding grounds; the male has a threat display, and may fight at territory boundaries. The nest is a shallow cup of grass leaves built in a depression under a grass tussock or small bush. The 3–11 eggs start hatching after about 14 days, and the black, downy precocial chicks fledge after four to five weeks. The African crake feeds on a wide range of invertebrates, along with some small frogs and fish, and plant material, especially grass seeds. It may itself be eaten by large birds of prey; snakes; or mammals, including humans, and can host parasites. Although it may be displaced temporarily by the burning of grassland, or permanently by agriculture, wetland drainage or urbanisation, its large range and population mean that it is not considered to be threatened.".
- African_crake binomialAuthority Wilhelm_Peters.
- African_crake class Bird.
- African_crake conservationStatus "LC".
- African_crake conservationStatusSystem "IUCN3.1".
- African_crake family Rallidae.
- African_crake genus Crex.
- African_crake kingdom Animal.
- African_crake order Gruiformes.
- African_crake phylum Chordate.
- African_crake synonym "Crecopsis egregia".
- African_crake synonym "Ortygometra egregia".
- African_crake synonym "Porzana egregia".
- African_crake thumbnail CrakeAfrican2(byMarkTittley)_cropped_and_mirrored.jpg?width=300.
- African_crake wikiPageExternalLink 212.pdf.
- African_crake wikiPageExternalLink african-crake-crex-egregia.
- African_crake wikiPageExternalLink 0.
- African_crake wikiPageID "11503349".
- African_crake wikiPageLength "27243".
- African_crake wikiPageOutDegree "104".
- African_crake wikiPageRevisionID "705517773".
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink African_hawk-eagle.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink African_rail.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Agreement_on_the_Conservation_of_African-Eurasian_Migratory_Waterbirds.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Ant.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Ash-throated_crake.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Baillons_crake.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Beetle.
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- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Bird_migration.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Bird_of_prey.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Black-headed_heron.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Blue_quail.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Boomslang.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Canary_Islands.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Province.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Cat.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Category:Animals_described_in_1854.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Category:Birds_of_Africa.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Category:Crex.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Clutch_(eggs).
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Coot.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Corn_crake.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Crex.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Dark_chanting_goshawk.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Deimatic_behaviour.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Earthworm.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Equator.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
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- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Fledge.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Flight_feather.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Gastropoda.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Grasshopper.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Great_snipe.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Gruiformes.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Holocene.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink ISimangaliso_Wetland_Park.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink IUCN_Red_List.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Ixodidae.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Johann_Matthäus_Bechstein.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Kruger_National_Park.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink KwaZulu-Natal.
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- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Least-concern_species.
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- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Mollusca.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Moorhen.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(biology).
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Moulting.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink New_Caledonia.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink North_Africa.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink North_West_(South_African_province).
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Okavango_Delta.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Old_World.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Onomatopoeia.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Palearctic_ecozone.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Parasitism.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Phylogenetics.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Plumage.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Porzana.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Precocial.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Rainforest.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Rallidae.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Bowdler_Sharpe.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Sahara.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Savanna.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Serval.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Spotted_crake.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Striped_crake.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Sub-Saharan_Africa.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Subspecies.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Sympatry.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink São_Tomé_and_Príncipe.
- African_crake wikiPageWikiLink Tenerife.