little crake
Porzana parva latin

The Little Crake has a short straight bill, yellow with a red base.

Voice perhaps similar to Little Crake, with which it has been thoroughly confused.

They are 16-18 cm in length, and are similar to the only slightly larger Little Crake.

Porzana parva Little Crake

The Little Crake (Porzana parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.

Porzana parva - Little Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa)

Both sexes differ from male Little Crake in having rufous upperparts, white streaks on wing coverts, flanks barred, bill all green and legs greyish-pink.

LITTLE CRAKE Porzana parva.

The monotonous repetition of the Common Cuckoo or Little Crake can be contrasted with the variety of a Nightingale or Marsh Warbler.

The Little Crake is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

The smallest crake of the region, very rare in N Africa, streaked above, but differing from both Baillon's and Little Crake in its paler flanks and rufous under tail coverts.

It gives a fast kerrre like the Little Crake, a harsh ka-haa and a grunting hoot "oot oot" that suggests that the name "coot" might be onomatopoeia, but inspection of the etymology of "coot" fairly decisively negates any such suggestion.

Porzana parva Little Crake

The Little Crake (Porzana parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.

Porzana parva - Little Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa)

LITTLE CRAKE Porzana parva.