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Red-necked Crake (Rallina tricolor) Alternate name(s): "Red-necked Rail", "Tricoloured Rail", "Scrub Rail" Size: 23-29 cm; wing span ca. 40 cm Weight: 170-210 g

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description Click here for a physical description Red-necked Crakes are medium-sized wetland birds. Their head, neck and chest are chestnut, while the rest of the plumage is dark-grey, with some barring on the vent/undertail coverts. The eyes with red irises are surrounded by narrow off-white eye-rings. The bill is pale yellow-greenish; legs and feet are greyish-yellow.

Taxonomy, classification See Red-necked Crake at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Red-necked Crake is available HERE . Red-necked Crakes populate parts of eastern Indonesia (Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands), New Guinea and north-eastern Australia. In Australia Red-necked Crakes live only in two areas on the eastern coastal fringe of far-northern QLD. One is the eastern side of the tip of Cape York peninsula, around Lockhart, QLD, the other ranges from Cooktown, QLD, in the North to Townsville, QLD, in the South. Red-necked Crakes live in in rainforest and in forest around permanent wetlands.

Sightings Click here for sighting information Both B. Hensen and M. Eaton report spotting Red-necked Crakes at Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, in November 2018.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Near-lateral view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Close-up lateral view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Lateral view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Lateral view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Near-dorsal view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Dorsal view of a Red-necked Crake (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

Food, Diet

Lateral view of a Red-necked Crake visiting a water bowl (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Kingfisher Park, Julatten, QLD, November 2018]

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