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SpeciesGruiformesRallidae
Birds

🐦Corn Crake

Crex crex (Linnaeus, 1758)

메추라기뜸부기(corn crake, corncrake, landrail, 학명: Crex crex)는 뜸부기과의 새이다. 유럽과 아시아에 살며 북반구 겨울을 나기 위해 아프리카로 이주한다. 크기가 보통은 뜸부기이며 윗쪽은 담황색이고 날개는 밤색이다. 튼튼한 부리는 살색이며 홍채는 창백한 갈색이며 다리는 창백한 회색이다. 아종은 없다. 이 새는 서유럽에서 개체수가 급감하고 있으나 러시아와 카자흐스탄의 개체수가 안정적이기 때문에 IUCN 적색 목록의 최소관심종으로 분류되어 있다.

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≈ 1/400th of your weight
Also called
Corncrake, corncrake, corn crake
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.15 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Corn Crake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.15 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tail length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.14 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Corn Crake yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGruiformes
  5. ›familyRallidae
  6. ›genusCrex
  7. ›speciesCrex crex
Full lineage
  1. superclassSarcopterygii
  2. superclassTetrapoda
  3. orderSauria
  4. classBirds · Aves
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Coot — last shared an ancestor ≈ 29 million years ago.
In other languages
derkacz (pl), kornknarr (sv), Wachtelkönig (de), коростель (ru), Kwartelkoning (nl), guatlla maresa (ca) … and 26 more languages
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