Family Rails, Gallinules, Coots (Rallidae)
Least Concern
Striped Crake (Amaurornis marginalis)
Taxonomy
French: Râle rayé German: Graukehl-Sumpfhuhn Spanish: Polluela culirroja
Taxonomy:
Porzana marginalis
Hartlaub
, 1857,Gabon
.Distribution:
N Ivory Coast patchily E to Cameroon and S to Congo; more continuously from E DRCongo to Kenya, S and W to Zimbabwe, extreme SE Angola, NE Namibia and Botswana; scattered localities in NE & E South Africa, where may breed in wet years.
Descriptive notes
18–21 cm; 2 females, 41·5 and 61 g. Both sexes have diagnostic reddish cinnamon lower flanks and undertail-coverts, visible in flight; other distinctive features... read more
Voice
Advertising call of female a series of rapidly repeated ticking notes, lasting up to 1 minute.... read more
Habitat
Typical breeding habitat is seasonally inundated grasslands which dry out and are often burned in... read more
Food and feeding
Earthworms, small snails, spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, flies, moths, insect larvae, small fish, and tadpoles. Forages on grass and mud,... read more
Breeding
Breeds during rains: Ghana, Jun; Nigeria, Aug, breeding condition Jun; Cameroon, breeding condition Jun; Gabon, breeding condition Nov;... read more
Movements
Imperfectly known. In W Africa recorded Ghana only in rains but status uncertain; resident Nigeria... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). A highly secretive and poorly known species, undoubtedly overlooked but generally uncommon throughout its range, which may be more... read more
Often retained in Porzana on basis of plumage characters, but differs in skull structure and in having longer legs and toes. Sometimes separated in genus Aenigmatolimnas. Monotypic.