Summary ⁴

The Corn Crake, Corncrake or Landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the northern hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- or grey-streaked brownish-black upperparts, chestnut markings on the wings, and blue-grey underparts with rust-coloured and white bars on the flanks and undertail. The strong bill is flesh-toned, the iris is pale brown, and...

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1. (c) Johann du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/21968724@N00/2177916084
2. (c) Ziegentom (www.fotocommunity.de), some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/CrexCrex.jpg/460px-CrexCrex.jpg
3. (c) Sergey Yeliseev, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Corncrake.jpg/460px-Corncrake.jpg
4. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crex_crex

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