corn crake
landrail
Crex crex latin

Loss of habitat is the other major threat to the Corn Crake.

There's one in particular-she's got a voice like a corn crake and she grumbles at everything.

The Corn Crake is silent in Africa.

Like its relative, the Corn Crake, it is too terrestrial to be classed as a wetland species.

On migration, the Corn Crake may also occur in wheatfields and around golf courses.

The Corn Crake is a difficult bird to see in its breeding sites, usually being hidden by vegetation, but will sometimes emerge into the open.

The Corn Crake is most active early and late in the day, after heavy rain and during light rain.

The genus name is onomatopoeic, referring to the repetitive grating call of the Corn Crake.

The Corn Crake is significantly larger than its relative, and has a distinctive chestnut patch on its wings.

It is smaller than its closest relative, the Corn Crake; that species is also lighter-plumaged, and has an eye stripe.

The common name was formerly spelt as a single word, "Corncrake", but the official version is now "Corn Crake".

The Corn Crake does not appear to be seriously threatened on its wintering grounds and may benefit from deforestation, which creates more open habitats.

A flying Corn Crake can resemble a gamebird, but its chestnut wing pattern and dangling legs are diagnostic.

There is a record of a Corn Crake on migration through Gabon being killed by a Black Sparrowhawk.

Reintroduction of the Corn Crake is being attempted in England, and breeding sites are scheduled for protection in many other countries.

Where breeding sites impinge on urban areas, there are cost implications, estimated in one German study at several million euros per Corn Crake.

Calling is most frequent early in the breeding season, mainly at night for the Corn Crake, but in the day for its African cousin.

The calls of the two Crex species cannot be confused, since the Corn Crake is silent in Africa.

The Corn Crake which is rare and is protected nationally, is located in the Callows area.

The Corn Crake breeds from Britain and Ireland east through Europe to central Siberia.

Most European countries have taken steps to conserve the Corn Crake and produce national management policies; there is also an overall European action plan.

It is not known whether the African Crake has a second brood, but the Corn Crake usually does.

Large I. pseudacorus stands in western Scotland form a very important feeding and breeding habitat for the endangered Corn Crake.

The breeding Corn Crake population had begun to decline in the 19th century, but the process gained pace after World War II.

The Corn Crake may take pests such as Sitona weevils, leatherjackets and wireworms.

And the landrail called, it seemed, in the very place where the fire had been.

And at once, as though in answer to his call, a landrail called on the opposite bank.

In the engagement Landrail did not actually fire her guns.

The fight lasted some two hours though there is no report of casualties on Landrail.

From the landrail I passed imperceptibly to the migration of the birds.

"Do you know, when the birds are migrating the landrail does not fly, but runs along the ground?

Lance and Landrail gave chase, signalling to the rest of the force that they were engaging.

Landrail was paid off October 1816.

As James put it, "for the Landrail to have fired her 12-pounders would have been a farce."

However, the officers and crew of Landrail remained in captivity in the US.

Wasp took Landrail into Halifax.

Borer and Landrail closed to assist, but Gloire managed to outrun her pursuers.

On 6 January 1814 Landrail arrived at the Isles of Scilly where she was put under quarantine.

Landrail was on her way to join a convoy to Castine, Maine, then in British possession.

"Upon my word, the dog . . ." muttered Savka, looking with respect in the direction of the calling landrail.

The favoured name for this species among naturalists has changed over the years, with "Landrail" and variants of "Corncrake" being preferred at various times.

Knowing how fond Savka was of listening, I told him all I had learned about the landrail from sportsman's books.

The old airfield became HMS Landrail II.

In 1813 Landrail performed a number of duties, including accompanying a convoy to the Baltic and carrying dispatches to Heligoland.

And the larks trilled unceasingly, the corncrakes called to one another, and the landrail cried as though someone were really scraping at an old iron rail.

HMS Landrail was the name given to RNAS Machrihanish, in commission between 1940 and 1963.

RNAS Machrihanish (HMS Landrail)

The Corn Crake, Corncrake or Landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family.

On 17 June Landrail captured the Danish sloop Resolutionen, C. P. Albech, Master.

'Order the missile destroyers Otlitnyi and Slavny to proceed with all possible speed to the predicted landrail of the Mig on the permanent pack.

Crex crex is still numerous on floodplain meadows (50-100 pairs).

Corncrake (Crex crex)

Corn Crake (Crex crex)

The island is a breeding site for corn crakes (Crex crex) a globally threatened species whose numbers have fallen with the intensification of agriculture.

The Corn Crake, Corncrake or Landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family.

The earlier use of crex gives it priority over Bechstein's specific name pratensis, and leads to the current name of Crex crex.

Among them are: Acrocephalus paludicola, Crex crex, Limosa limosa, Grus grus, Botaurus stellaris, Ixobychus minutus or quite common here Chlidonias Niger.

Axel Bräunlich & Michael Rank, "Notes on the occurrence of the Corncrake (Crex crex) in Asia and in the Pacific region", In Schäffer, n.; Mammen, U (PDF).