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  Corn Crake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Corn Crake (Crex crex) is a small bird in the family Rallidae.
Their breeding habitat is not marshes like most crakes, but, as the name implies, meadows and arable farmland.
Corn Crakes are very secretive in the breeding season, and are then mostly heard far more often than they are seen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corn_Crake   (268 words)

  
 Russian Science News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This alarming estimation served as a trigger for the development of a special 'Corn crake' Project, which was started in 1994 by the International Organization 'Birdlife' with financial support of the UK Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
The territories suitable for the corn crake's habitat significantly reduced and the life conditions in the remaining areas deteriorated.
By the end of the 70s the number of corn crakes in some areas decreased almost by half, corn crakes became rare in some other areas and by the end of the century the species was registered in some regional Red Books.
www.informnauka.ru /eng/2001/2001-06-22-0255_e.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Corn Crake
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Distribution and habitat of the Corn Crake (Crex crex) at the Upper SoČa basin (Julian Alps, Slovenia).
www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/C/Corn_Crake.shtml   (1909 words)

  
 Chapter Co-regent <i>to</i> Corner of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.
A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1194/22278/5.html   (348 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Animals And Plants (C)
The Corn Marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum) is a rich orange coloured British wild flower.
Corn Salad (lamb's-lettuce, Valerianella olitoria) is a plant of the order Valerianaceae nati e to Britain and Europe.
The Corn-moth (Tinea granella) is a small moth the larva of which destroys corn sheaves in the field.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/B2.HTM   (9177 words)

  
 Shrike Believed to Have Died! from Outdoor Nova Scotia - News
A corn crake, last observed in eastern North America in 1928, was sighted in Shelburne County near Matthew's Lake, one of several excellent birding destinations in south western Nova Scotia.
The often elusive corn crake is rare even in Europe where the bird inhabits hay and grain fields.
A corn crake is a member of the rail family characterized by a short neck, long legs and long toes.
www.outdoorns.com /news/shrikedead.htm   (334 words)

  
 Outer Hebrides Trip Report
The RSPB reserve at Balranald is the best place to look for Corn Crake during the day as they seem immune to the continual comings and goings of visitors and with patience can be seen as well as heard here, although the long vegetation makes viewing frustrating.
Corn Crake hunting was abandoned whilst Dave tried to ring the warden for help.
Corn Crake: Heard in a number of places along the west coast but only seen at Balranald on 11th and 15th.
www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2002/outerhebs.php   (1806 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: North Uist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The island is also known for its birdlife, including corncrakes, arctic terns, gannets, corn buntings and Manx shearwaters.
Binomial name Crex crex Linnaeus, 1758 The Corn Crake (Crex crex) is a small bird in the family Rallidae.
Binomial name Miliaria calandra (Linnaeus, 1758) The Corn Bunting, Miliaria calandra, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Uist   (978 words)

  
 Rallidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The family Rallidae is a large group of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules.
Many reedbed species are secretive, apart from loud calls, and crepuscular, and have laterally flattened bodies.
In the Old World, long billed species tend to be called “rails” and short billed species “crakes”.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kicker_bird   (414 words)

  
 Corncrake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Corn Crakes are only just beginning to get established on the mainland of Mull and are very sensitive to even minor disturbance.
Corn crakes arrive on Iona at the end of April or early May and this is the best time to see this shy and elusive bird, before the grass and flag iris beds have grown high making the Corn crakes almost invisible to most of us.
This is ILLEGAL and is classed as disturbing nesting birds, as indeed is playing a tape of Corn crake calling to attract birds.
www.mullbirds.com /G2-14.html   (247 words)

  
 Outer Hebrides Trip Report
As usual the Corn Crakes were in good voice but seemingly impossible to se in the long vegetation.
Corn Crake: After hearing this elusive bird on a number of occasions our patience was eventually at Balranald on 11th.
One bird was seen in the open near the information centre whilst another gave a classic Corn Crake performance, calling with its neck outstretched from a patch of Yellow Flag.
www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2004/outerhebs.php   (2295 words)

  
 Corn Crake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Corn Crakes are very secretive in the season and are then mostly heard far often than they are seen.
The name used commonly to be spelled a single word 'Corncrake' but the official name is Corn Crake and the trend is to follow this.
A good size for parties, families, and popcorn junkies, the 8-quart Stir Crazy popper from West Bend uses a motorized stirring rod to maximize popcorn yield and minimize cooking time.
www.freeglossary.com /Corn_Crake   (291 words)

  
 Corn
You'd be corn-on-the-cob or corn bread in the Fall.
You'd be feed corn or seed corn or a booze distillate.
Corn violet, corn poppy, corn salad to yield.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /sample01/myrhymes/corn.htm   (489 words)

  
 Iris pseudacorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yellow iris has been used as a form of water treatment since it has the ability to take up heavy metals through its roots.
Large iris stands in western Scotland form a very important feeding and breeding habitat for the endangered Corn Crake.
The rhizome has historically been used as a herbal remedy, most often as an emetic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iris_pseudacorus   (375 words)

  
 1998 NW CHINA (XINJIANG) TOUR
Meanwhile the crake behind the fence continued to call and seemed to be right next to the fence.
The crake behind the fence continued to sound more excited and we wished we'd spent our short time trying to see him.
It turns out that the Corn Crake is fairly common in that area, with 4 seen and 32 others heard over 3 days.
www.kingbirdtours.com /reports/xinjiang98re.html   (1046 words)

  
 InfoHub - View Single Post - Songzia heidangkouensis - An Eocene Bird
But they have many different structures: tubercle on supratendinal bridge of Songziidae is very developed, internal condyle is large and not projected, internal ligamental prominence is poorly developed, small size.
For example, the corn crake (Crex crex) has lived on farmlands.
The corn crake has been decreasing in numbers in recent years.
www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?p=17111&postcount=1   (296 words)

  
 Machair (geography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Machairs have received considerable ecological and conservational attention, mainly because of their unique ecosystem.
They can house rare carpet flowers, such as Irish Lady's Tresses, orchids and Yellow Rattle, along with a diverse array of bird species including the corn crake, twite, dunlin, redshank and ringed plover.
They are threatened by erosion caused by rising sea levels and the recreational use of beaches nearby.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Machair   (178 words)

  
 Corn Crake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 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.
Wet but not softened meadows, clover and corn fields bordered of bushes.
sunny1446.free.fr /affiche_en.php?oiseau=96   (100 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
Ruddy-breasted crakes are common residents in Taiwan that are usually seen alone or scattered about in small groups.
The Rufous-faced Crake, Laterallus xenopterus, is a poorly known and secretive ralid known from a small number of localities in Paraguay and one area in Brazil (6-11,13,19) and is considered Vulnerable (7).
He is found throughout temperate North America, in the weedy swamps of the Atlantic states in great abundance, in the Middle states, and in California...
www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/rallidae.html   (873 words)

  
 phorum - IDFrontiers - Re: [BIRDWG01] Italian Rail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Corn Crake >Crex crex< also appears to be a possibility.
Crake (Porzana parva) that cannot be at all given the bird size and dark
Moorhen (Gallinula angulata) and the 1st African Crake (Crex egregia) for
www.surfbirds.com /phorum/read.php?f=51&i=3947&t=3943   (610 words)

  
 Brontë Sources, Texts, and Criticism
The female lays ten or twelve eggs, on a nest made of a little moss or dry grass loosely put together: they are of a pale ash colour, marked with rust-coloured spots.
The young Crakes are covered with a fl down; they soon find the use of their legs, for they follow the mother immediately after they have burst the shell.
The foregoing figure was made from a living bird, for which the work is indebted to the late Major H. Gibson.
faculty.plattsburgh.edu /peter.friesen/default.asp?go=738   (333 words)

  
 British Ornithologists Union: Conference Report Climate Change and Coastal Birds
Research by the RSPB into the nationally endangered Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus, Corn Crake Crex crex and Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus had all shown encouraging population increases.
Ian Newton set the scene for the weekend by describing the declines in farmland birds as ‘one of the major conservation problems of our age' (Newton 2004) and over the last 15-20 years the British ornithological research community has put a great deal of effort into addressing this problem.
They have included now rare species that have undergone sustained post-war declines (Corn Crake, Stone-curlew, Cirl Bunting), but perhaps more worryingly, the BTO's large-scale survey data and in particular the Common Birds Census have shown that common species have also declined in population, sometimes quite severely.
www.bou.org.uk /meetrep10.html   (1276 words)

  
 BIRDEAST archives -- December 1997, week 1 (#23)
By one conservative estimate, more than 300 people observed the bird during its nine day stay, and most (250+) were from outside Nova Scotia.
****************************************** ** CORN CRAKE (Crex crex) [Rale de genets] The Corn Crake has not been seen since its second appearance, on Sunday, November 30.
It has been thoroughly looked for since that time, and may still be extant, but is certainly neither visible nor cooperative.
listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9712a&L=birdeast&F=&S=&P=1712   (312 words)

  
 Ornithomedia - Magazine - Article
The data for Morhens ringed ringed in other countries in summer and autumn and found in Belgum confirm results.
The few results for other Rallidae ringed in belgium are briefly discussed : Water rail (17 recoveries), Spotted Crake (2 recoveries).
No recoveries known for the Little Crake, Baillon's Crake and the Corn Crake.
www.ornithomedia.com /magazine/mag_art188_1.htm   (634 words)

  
 Hjälstaviken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bittern and Water Rail breed yearly, as well as Grasshopper Warbler and Yellow Wagtail.
Also Spotted Crake and Corn Crake can be heard most years.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Scarlet Rosefinch, Trush Nightingale and Ortolan Bunting can be found at the south side of the area.
hem.fyristorg.com /vera/hjalsta_eng.htm   (427 words)

  
 Estonica : Nature : Fauna
The cultural heritage landscapes of Estonia support also bird species that have become extinct or rare in several neighbouring countries.
Of such species, the great snipe breeds in some places on the Estonian floodplain meadows, the corn crake is abundant, and the dunlin breeds on coastal meadows.
Sixty five species of fish have been found in the waters of Estonia.
www.estonica.org /eng/lugu.html?kateg=10&alam=70&menyy_id=480&leht=5#2085   (837 words)

  
 Rallidae - 秧鸡科 - クイナ科 - Họ Gà nước   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Used on the Mainland for crakes (genus Porzana)
In traditional poetry it referred to the Ruddy-breasted crake (Porzana fusca).
Originally it referred to the cuckoos, but later, was confused with the crakes or Cuốc.
www.cjvlang.com /Birds/rail.html   (581 words)

  
 crake - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Crake : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include crake: spotted crake, water crake, corn crake, african crake, baillon's crake, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=crake&ls=a   (181 words)

  
 rallidae
Chestnut-headed Crake, Anurolimnas castaneiceps, Râle à masque rouge
Red-necked Crake or Red-necked Rail, Rallina tricolor, Râle tricolore
Rarely seen and little known, the 145 species of the secretive rail family occupy a wide range of habitats, from forests and wetlands to grasslands and even scrub-covered remote oceanic islands and coral cays.
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