Red-legged Crake (Rallina fasciata)
About the Red-legged Crake
The red-legged crake (Rallina fasciata) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae. 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. 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.
A real field recording of the Red-legged Crake. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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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.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam · xeno-canto lists 66 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.