Spotted Crake
Porzana porzana(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Spotted Crake
The Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) 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: breeds British Isles (very locally) and Spain eastward across southern Scandinavia and northern Mediterranean to western and central Russia, Arabia, and northwestern Mongolia; winters Mediterranean to southern Africa and southeastern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Porzana porzana
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Spotted Crake
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Rallus Porzana
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Europe = France, ex Brissonian reference.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.262
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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