spotted crake
porzana porzana

Sora is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, where it can be confused with Spotted Crake.

Occasionally Eurasian Bittern and Spotted Crake is seen by the lake.

A vagrant from America, very like Spotted Crake, but with white under tail coverts and in adults (not immatures) a black face patch.

Crepuscular birds include the Common Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, American Woodcock, and Spotted Crake.

Porzana porzana - Spotted Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa and India)

Other bird sightings include Heron, Tufted Duck, Common Tern, Pochard, and Spotted Crake.

Other birds recorded include Smew, Garganey, Temminck's Stint, Spotted Crake and Red-necked Phalarope.

Because of such large number of birds, including rare ones like night heron and spotted crake, Zasavica is included in the list of IBA, important bird areas.

The nearby Kalnciems Meadows is a natural habitat for fauna such as the Corn crake, Spotted crake, and Black-tailed Godwit.

SPOTTED CRAKE Porzana porzana.

The Australian Crake, also known as Australian Spotted Crake, (Porzana fluminea) is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.

Juvenile and freshly moulted Water Rails may show a buff undertail like Spotted Crake, but that species' plumage is spotted with white, and it has a much shorter, mainly yellowish bill.

The advertising calls of both crakes are readily distinguished from the quite dissimilar calls of potentially sympatric rails such as the Spotted Crake, Striped Crake, Baillon's Crake, or Water Rail.

Other species of which the lake is recorded as holding regionally high numbers are Magpie Geese, Glossy Ibis, Brolga, Australian Spotted Crake, Black-tailed Godwit, Marsh Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Red-kneed Dotterel and White-winged Black Tern.

The Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.

SPOTTED CRAKE Porzana porzana.