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Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii)

Ocellated Crake
Photo: Joseph Smit via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain — free for commercial reuse.

About the Ocellated Crake

The ocellated crake (Rufirallus schomburgkii) is a small terrestrial species of bird in the family Rallidae that is native to the grassland and savanna habitats of Central America and South America. Though it is not often seen, it is easily recognizable by its cinnamon plumage with black and white mottling. This species was formerly placed in its own genus Micropygia.

Source: Ocellated crake on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Ocellated Crake. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:17) via xeno-canto.org/251040, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 96 recordings for this species in total.

Other birds in this region

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.