Band-bellied Crake (Zapornia paykullii)
About the Band-bellied Crake
The band-bellied crake (Zapornia paykullii) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It breeds in Manchuria, eastern China and northern Korea; it winters throughout Southeast Asia. It is getting rare due to habitat loss. In 1813 the Swedish taxon author Sven Ingemar Ljungh named the bird after the naturalist Gustaf von Paykull.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 34 recordings for this species: 19 CC BY-NC-ND · 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in China, Russia, Singapore, South Korea in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Baillon's CrakeZapornia pusillarecording
- Black CrakeZapornia flavirostrarecording
- Little CrakeZapornia parvarecording
- Ruddy-breasted CrakeZapornia fuscarecording
- Spotless CrakeZapornia tabuensisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.