The corncrake, also once very common, is now almost never seen.

The corncrake began to call again out in the distance.

She has red hair and works her trade out of the Corncrake tavern.

The corncrake can be seen at the bridge of Banagher in the summer.

One of the main attractions is the rare corncrake.

Voice rather like a corncrake, but she had all her wits about her.

In telling it, he cackled like a corncrake and waved his arms about.

Her little voice was like a corncrake when she got going and the words became a hoarse shout I made them both laugh out loud.

From time to time the rare Corncrake has nested inland also.

The beasts were probably still in the yard behind the Corncrake tavern, which meant they were lost.

Lester Corncrake demonstrates his heightened sense of vision.

The moor was uncannily silent for a moment then, suddenly, close by, came the harsh grating call of a corncrake.

North Uist is a British stronghold for the corncrake.

Species such as the corncrake and the rare Red-necked Phalarope are found in the area.

On early summer evenings you can sometimes hear snipe drumming, and even the rasp of a corncrake.

You are unlikely to see or hear a corncrake, but you might get a glimpse of the whimbrel, also endangered.

From the dark meadows by the brook came the cry of a corncrake, its harsh note softened by distance.

A corncrake in the hay-close called insistently.

She's a Whitechapel Jewess with dyed hair and a voice like a corncrake."

The corncrake called still.

The idiosyncratic corncrake, whose remarkable rasping call used to be a familiar country sound, has suffered a collapse in numbers because of modern farming methods.

Considerable efforts have been taken to conserve the shy Corncrake, and summer numbers of this red-listed species have recovered to 670 pairs.

The corncrake's cry has been verbalized as crex , which adequately represents the crake that is the basic form of the name.

Proceedings International Workshop 1998 Corncrake.

The common name was formerly spelt as a single word, "Corncrake", but the official version is now "Corn Crake".