Corn Crake ( Crex crex ) |
Description |
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Various |
Similar to quail but definitely larger. Fly only seldom and on short distances, the legs pendantes. At the season of the nests, the male presents a plumage gray-blue at the neck and betrays its presence by a song similar to a scraping. The youngs are black. |
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The corn crake moves in its territory by borrowing kinds of "corridor-tunnels" built under the vegetation and in which it can run at an astonishing speed without a grass bit moving. |
Habitat : | Wet but not softened meadows, clover and corn fields bordered of bushes. |
Food : | Insects, worms, more rarely of seeds. |
Size : | 10.638 inch (27-30 cm) |
Weight : 135-200 g |
Wing span : 18.124 inch (46-53 cm) |