African Crake
Crecopsis egregia(Peters, WKH, 1854)
English (US) African Crake
The African Crake (Crecopsis egregia) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal eastward to Kenya and southward to northern and eastern South Africa, except in driest areasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Crecopsis egregia
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- African Crake
- Described by
- (Peters, WKH, 1854)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Ortygometra (Crex) egregia
- Described by
- (Peters, WKH, 1854)
- Type locality
- Tete, Zambesi.
- Original description
- Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin p.134
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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