Little Crake (Zapornia parva)
About the Little Crake
The little crake (Zapornia parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae. parva is Latin for "small". This species was long included in the genus Porzana. Its breeding habitat is reed beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and just into western Asia. This species is migratory, wintering in Africa.
A real field recording of the Little 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 CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 328 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Baillon's CrakeZapornia pusillarecording
- Band-bellied CrakeZapornia paykulliiprofile
- Black CrakeZapornia flavirostrarecording
- Black-tailed CrakeZapornia bicolorprofile
- Brown CrakeZapornia akoolprofile
- Henderson CrakeZapornia atraprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.