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Corncrake2🐦

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SpeciesGruiformesRallidae
Birds

🐦Corn Crake

Crex crex (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bıldırcın kılavuzu (Crex crex), yelvegiller (Rallidae) familyasından bir kuş türü. Üreme habitatı, diğer su yelvelerinin çoğu gibi bataklıklar değildir, çayırlar ve tarımsal çiftliklerdir. Avrupa ve batı Asya boyunca görülürler, kışın Afrika'ya göç ederler. Erişkin bıldırcın kılavuzu, 22-25 santimetre uzunluğundadır ve çoğunlukla kahverengi olup, vücudunun üst kısmı yoğun biçimde beneklerle kaplı, başı ile boynu mavi-gri ve böğrü kırmızımsı çizgilidir. Kısa gagaları ve uçuşta gösterdiği kestane rengi kanatları ve uzun sarkık bacakları vardır. Eşeyler benzerdir ama olgunlaşmamış kuşta mavi-gri renk yerini kahverengimsi sarıya bırakır.

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vs you
≈ 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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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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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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Family tree

  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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