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Red-legged Crake
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Red-legged Crake
Rallina fasciata
The red-legged crake (Rallina fasciata) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.
From the article Red-legged crake on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is a medium-large crake (length 24 cm). Its head, neck and breast red-brown, paler on throat. Its upper parts are grey-brown. Underparts and underwings are barred black and white. Its bill is green and its legs are red.
Range & habitat
Found in far north-eastern India, eastern Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. It has also been recorded as a vagrant to north-western Australia, Lanyu near Taiwan, and Palau. It is located in dense vegetation close to permanent wetlands, from paddy fields to dense rainforest. It is partly migratory, but the nature of its movements are poorly understood.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 288.