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This bird is a Baillons Crake taken at the Lake Cargelligo Sewage Ponds in late afternoon.
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English Baillon's Crake
Scientific (Zapornia pusilla)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rallidae
Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Other name(s) Marouette de Baillon, Marsh Crake
Breeding Regions PAL, AF, OR, AU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh, Belarus,Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China, Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea, Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan, Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Lesotho,Libya,Macedonia,Madagascar, Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Mozambique,Myanmar, Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Oman,Pakistan,Papua New Guinea,Philippines, Poland,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore, Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Switzerland,Syria, Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,Vietnam, Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
intermedia w Europe to Asia Minor; n, e, s Africa and Madagascar
pusilla e Europe to c, e Asia
mira Borneo
mayri wc, ec New Guinea
palustris se New Guinea and Australia (except ne, sc, Tasmania)
affinis North, South and Stewart is. (New Zealand); formerly Chatham Is. (e of South I.)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Pallas, 1776): NOTE(TAX,PHY: Move from genus Porzana to Zapornia (Slikas et al. 2002; Dickinson & Remsen 2013).)
German Zwergsumpfhuhn
French Marouette de Baillon
Chinese 小田鸡
Japanese ヒメクイナ
Russian Погоныш-крошка
Spanish Polluela chica
Portuguese franga-de-água-pequena
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)