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	Corncrake - Crex crex: More Information - ARKive
		Male and female corncrakes are very similar in appearance; both have light yellowish-brown plumage, and the face and upper parts of the breast are pale grey.
		The corncrake is easier to hear than to see, the call is a repeated rasping 'crrek crrek' similar to a nail scraping along a comb (2).
		The corncrake is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) species; the Species Action Plan aims to maintain the population, increase its range and in the long-term, restore the species to parts of its former UK range (5).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/birds/Crex_crex/more_info.html (850 words)

	Birds
		Only 20 singing male Corncrakes were recorded that year, and there were serious concerns that, given the poor weather conditions during the breeding, the population may decline further in 2003.
		Corncrakes began to decline when traditional farming systems began to be replaced by modern agricultural methods.
		Corncrakes, particularly young chicks, are reluctant to cross open ground, and may become trapped in an island of remaining grass at the centre of the field as mowing proceeds.
	www.jxbreslin.com /birds.htm (1004 words)

	Corncrake
		In 1988, a survey of corncrakes In Ireland identified the Shannon Callows, north Donegal, north Mayo and Fermanagh as the last surviving strongholds of the corncrake In Ireland.
		Corncrakes arrive during late April and early May from wintering grounds in south-east Africa, after which they arc reluctant to fly.
		Corncrakes can be very difficult to locate even when birds are known to be using a field.
	homepage.eircom.net /~rachra/corncrake.html (311 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Corncrake--Revision - A635799
		Corncrake bones in the 5,000 year old lake settlement at Lough Gur in County Limerick show that it was used for food in prehistoric times, while game laws of the 18th century referred to the catching of 'landrails' or corncrakes.
		The corncrake is one of 24 European bird species which is regarded as being in danger on a global scale.
		Even these 'corncrake -friendly' methods have made little difference in the Shannon callows area, and a third measure which may be necessary is the growth of extra patches of long vegetation in which the birds can shelter after the hay is cut.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A635799 (873 words)

	IPCC information sheets - Crex Crex - The Corncrake
		Corncrakes nest on the ground close to the centre of the meadow and the tall vegetation provides cover and protection from predators whilst feeding and breeding.
		The Corncrake was still widespread in every Irish county at the beginning of the 1970's, (being reported from 83% of Irish 10 km squares during the 1968-1972 BTO/IWC survey for the Atlas of Breeding Birds, Sharrock 1976).
		The movement of the farmer through the field, scythe in hand, alerted the corncrake to his presence and the possible dangers that this could entail thus giving the bird plenty of time to escape and giving the farmer the opportunity to avoid killing the bird, its eggs or chicks.
	www.ipcc.ie /infocrexcrex1.html (4576 words)

	Corncrake Census 2002
		In contrast to the fate of the birds in the Shannon Callows.
		Corncrake numbers in Donegal are up from 80 singing males in 2001 to 97 this year (an increase of over 20%).
		Two thirds of these birds were recorded on islands and half of the island birds were on Tory, where numbers increased from 20 last year to a staggering 32 in 2002.
	www.client.teagasc.ie /donegal/teagascnotes/corncrake_census_2002.htm (105 words)

	Virtual Yarns - Colour Stories
		Sadly this is no longer the case, for modern farming methods do not provide the Corncrake with a nesting place, and over the years the birds have become an endangered species.
		The Corncrake population is now confined to the Outer Hebrides, and even here the decline of traditional crofting methods has seen the planting of corn and oats drastically reduced, thus depriving the bird of its preferred habitat.
		Our Corncrake colour is a mix of light golden browns and bronze, flecked with greens and reds, and with occasional hints of darker tones.
	www.virtualyarns.com /colour/birds.asp (2953 words)

	Wildlife Hebrides - wildlife in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
		On mainland UK, the corncrake's natural habitat is fast decreasing in area, with industry and intensive farming methods driving the corncrakes away.
		In the Hebrides, however, the corncrake is still fairly common and can be heard from mid April until early August: Scottish Natural Heritage work to protect their preferred environment in the Hebrides as much as possible.
		The corncrake can be found throughout the islands but is most populous in the Southern Isles of Uists and Barra.
	www.wildlifehebrides.com /topten/corncrake (179 words)

	Corncrake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Because population of 5 pairs nest in the near, the area is also valuable and suitable refuge for those pairs.
		Corncrakes arrive to the nest site from Africa into Europe in late April or at the beginning of May. Their targets are wet meadows, swamp meadows, litter meadows or alpine meadows.
		Breeding habitat: The corncrake is adapted to breed in open or semi-open farmland, mostly in meadows with tall vegetation.
	www.sigov.si /kp/corncrake.htm (562 words)

	Lord Sewel welcomes corncrake-friendly leaflet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Corncrakes breed in fields of grass grown for hay and silage and flightless corncrake chicks run a high risk of being run down and killed when fields are mown.
		The Corncrake Steering Group is a partnership between the Government and its agencies, land owning and management groups such as the Scottish Crofters Union and the National Farmers Union of Scotland, and non-Government conservation agencies including the RSPB and the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
		The corncrake is one of the 116 rare species in the UK covered by an action plan in the report of the UK Biodiversity Steering Group published in 1995.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /news/releas98_1/pr1033.htm (679 words)

	Corncrake, Crex crex
		Really nocturnal in habits, male corncrakes at this season favoured 'rich meadows and the drier marshes dividing arable from the swampiest levels.' The males became so obsessed by nuptial instincts that they called day and night.
		Stevenson regularly recorded corncrakes in the mid-Yare valley nearly Coldham Hall 'calling to one another from either side of the river.' On one occasion, three were shot at Surlingham in a single day and on the other side of the waterway a further nine out of 10 birds met a similar end.
		Corncrakes have not bred in Norfolk for many years.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/corncrake.htm (456 words)

	ireland.com / In Time's Eye / Birds
		However, as farmers became more intensive in their production methods and silage-making replaced haymaking as the main source of winter fodder, the corncrake was in trouble.Now, despite an international effort to conserve its breeding grounds, it is the only Irish breeding bird threatened with global extinction.
		Since the 1991 launch of the Corncrake Conservation Project, which is supported by the Department of the Environment and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), there has been only an overall decline in the number of calling males, the best indicator of breeding pairs.
		The Corncrake Grant Scheme, supported by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Deparment of the Environment and now enshrined in the EU's Rural Environment Protection Scheme may well mean generations to come will be able to hear this elusive, shy visitor from Africa which comes here to breed each year.
	www.ireland.com /timeseye/birds/corncrake.htm (749 words)

	The corncrake - some ornithology! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The secretive corncrake is a summer visitor to the UK and other parts of Northern Europe but it is becoming increasingly rare.
		’ song used to be a common sound of the UK countryside and the corncrake is referred to in many poems and songs from the 18th and 19th centuries.
		More than 90% of the UK corncrake population is believed to be in the Scottish Hebrides with the remainder mainly in Orkney.
	website.lineone.net /~corncrake/ornithology.html (200 words)

	Corncrake - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Corncrake - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Corncrakes are related to moorhens, coots and rails but differ from most members of the family because they live on dry land.
		They are very secretive, spending most of their time hidden in tall vegetation, their presence only betrayed by their rasping call.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/c/corncrake/index.asp (245 words)

	Three Year Report Shows UK Species, Habitats in Recovery
		The most threatened bird is the corncrake, a grassland bird that started to disappear from the British countryside more than a century ago, after intensive mechanized farming methods were introduced.
		Migratory birds that winter in Africa, corncrakes are related to moorhens, coots and rails but live on dry land, mostly in Britain's western islands and in Scotland.
		The corncrake is recovering in England and Scotland due to intensive conservation efforts.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jun2006/2006-06-19-01.asp (1038 words)

	RTÉ Radio One, Mooney Goes Wild, News
		The Corncrake is short-lived but has large numbers of young, which means that although it has the potential to go down in numbers rapidly it can also increase quickly.
		Nevertheless, the status of the Corncrake in Ireland is not assured, and I hope that farmers who have shown so much goodwill in past years will help bring about a further increase in the numbers of this threatened species”.
		The official Corncrake census, carried out by BirdWatch Ireland fieldworkers, begins on 20 May and runs to the 10 July and we are hoping for a bumper year.
	www.rte.ie /radio/mooneygoeswild/news/may06_corncrake.html (376 words)

	Corncrake Body 1
		Following this article, The Corncrake was contacted by a regular Colonsay visitor, Ken Drysdale, who spent a week on the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, taking photographs of the sea birds that nest on the island.
		Try as The Corncrake might to move on from the subject of doctoring, a further story of interest lies therein - congratulations are the order of the day to two doctors who have a home on the island.
		Corncrake is published to keep all our friends in touch with life on the island.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~hotel/old1/cornb105.html (4483 words)

	The Corncrake Guest House at Cracoe, near Grassington, Yorkshire Dales
		The Corncrake is ideally placed for those planning a walking, cycling or touring holiday in the Dales.
		The Corncrake building was completed as a Wesleyan Chapel in 1898, later becoming a private residence.
		The 'Crake' is the Corncrake, which used to be fairly common locally, but now efforts are being made to re-establish it.
	www.yorkshirenet.co.uk /accgde/corncrake (535 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		The corncrake - the world`s most threatened bird to breed regularly in the UK - started to disappear from the English countryside more than a century ago, because of the introduction of more mechanized and intensive farming methods.
		Hopefully, the call of the corncrake will once more be a feature of at least one small part of the English countryside.
		The Corncrake Project is a collaboration between the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, ZSL`s Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and English Nature.
	www.fatbirder.com /news/index.php?article=262 (556 words)

	Irish birds-- Corncrake- Pupils Work
		Although fields of corn are sometimes used by the Corncrake as breeding ground, it is most unusual to actually see them.
		The colour of the corncrake is brown and blue and white and yellow and fl dots.
		Early mowing of grass is the main problem as it destroys corncrake eggs and chicks.
	homepage.eircom.net /~edrice/birds/ccrake.htm (271 words)

	BirdForum - The Corncrake Returns
		I was one of the reporting officers on the RSPB corncrake survey in 2003 and there was a fair bit of good news although some disappointment too.
		I have a question for both Ian, as you were involved in Corncrake surveys, and Chris, who started the thread: I am puzzled, because around 1999 there was a Corncrake survery which showed that there were 21 reports in England alone, not including Scotland.
		not surprisingly the Corncrake is subject to the same global economic forces as the rest of the world, animal and human.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=6492 (2430 words)

	Corncrake \| Projects \| Russian Bird Conservation Union
		In many countries of Western Europe, population of the Corncrake is abruptly declining because of intensive agricultural activity.
		Taking into account the fact that European Russia is an important region for the Corncrake survival in Europe, in 1994, RBCU together with RSPB и BirdLife International began to develop a project on ther species study and protection in European Russia.
		Main goals of the project are estimation of the Corncrake population size, studying its dynamics, identification key habitats, and development of ercommendation on their protection, including friendly agruicultural techniques.
	www.rbcu.ru /projects/corncrake/en (154 words)

	North Atlantic Skyline: Corncrake
		It was a corncrake (in Latin, it goes by its onomatopoeic name crex crex), and it was the first and last time I heard or saw it at home.
		It is also one of the main habitats for the corncrake, which has become damn near extinct around the country.
		Each year there were corncrakes, and although they often kept me awake at night, I don't think I ever saw one.
	www.monasette.com /archive/000457.html (1434 words)

	Corncrake Officer
		She showed us a video about the corncrakes and other birds in the Shannon Callows.
		Then when silage making was invented farmers could cut their hay earlier and corncrakes had no place to make their nests.
		There are only 3 places that the corncrake still nests, Tory Island, Mayo and the Shannon Callows.
	www.sip.ie /sip022/corncrake_officer.htm (141 words)

	Homepage of the Corncrake Conservation Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The corncrake is a globally threatened bird species.
		We would like to make you familiar with the corncrake on this home page.
		We also would like to show you what we are doing for the conservation of the corncrake.
	www.corncrake.net /index_e.html (39 words)

	Corncrake: Celtic Mythology
		Thanks to The Lord Protector of England, and his fanatical Puritan armies, most of Ireland's ancient manuscripts were destroyed, but a few were hidden and survived.
		Forty years later the corncrake is no longer a feature of the Cave Hill or the Bog Meadow, having officially been designated as extinct in Northern Ireland in 1993, and Mr.
		This year a single corncrake was heard at Lough Neagh for the first time since 1986.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/7744/corncrakes5.html (343 words)

	Press release
		In response to a demand from teachers for resource material and research topics on meadows and corncrakes, the Irish Peatland Conservation Council have launched the latest in a line of education resource packs the - Crex Crex Corncrake Resource Pack.
		Our grandparents and parents were familiar with the Corncrake, a regular summer visitor to the rural Irish landscape.
		In days gone by, the Corncrake was considered by some to be a night-time pest, disturbing folks from their slumber with its harsh rasp like call in the early hours of the morning.
	www.ipcc.ie /prcorncrake.html (348 words)

	Animal Portal - Animals In Danger - Corncrake
		Spends the northern winter in africa, migrating in summer to visit many parts of europe, particularly ireland and the baltic states.
		Threats To Because of intensive farming practices in europe, the corncrake is now high on the list of europe's most endangered wildlife.
		During their migrations many local hunters and trappers in the north african countries restock their larders, thus causing further depletion in numbers of the already hard-pressed birds.
	www.animalport.com /animals-in-danger/Corncrake.html (125 words)

	BirdForum - Corncrake
		Believe it or not that was the first time I've ever actually seen one - heard plenty over the last few years but none seen, I couldn't believe my eyes when this bird walked out into the open, I also got some shots of it calling and also preening.
		Corncrakes were plentiful throughout the UK until farming methods changed in the mid 19th century - now it is classed as "globally threatened".
		Since then and especially since the 1950s with increased mechanisation, earlier harvesting of hay and silage and grazing by sheep, the bird has undergone a rapid decline.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=16446 (1036 words)

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